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• What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Age, Reverberation

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• That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Games, Play

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• Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Want, Goodness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.144, Penguin

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• In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path, the path which sound ethics, sound democracy, and the common law prescribe, or choose the secret way by which he can get the better of his fellow man.

  Ida Tarbell

  Men, Law, Evil

  Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.21, Ravenio Books

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• Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Army, Men

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• We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Thinking, Evil, Faults

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a single conquest without the aid of both. Indeed how can she? What adds to moral strength, but a grappling with temptation?

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Hands, Evil, Temptation

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• Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

  Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

  Pain, Evil, Pleasure

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• There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

  Amelia Barr

  Evil, Wickedness, May

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.36, Litres

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• ... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

  Amelia Barr

  Evil, Mystery, Enough

  Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.116, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Thinking, Hands, Feet

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• . . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Pain, Distance, Evil

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• They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved. ... if this optimism appears too superficial, they will try to create a kind of anti-God: the U.S.S.R. That is Evil, and it only needs to be annihilated to re-establish the reign of Good.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Believe, Evil, Optimism

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• A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees.

  Margaret Halsey

  Struggle, Fighting, Men

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

  Jane Roberts

  Evil, Criminals, Detectives

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.427, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• I am still sure of absolute wrong but much less certain of absolute right.

  Jill Tweedie

  Evil, Certain, Stills

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• good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Evil, Vulnerability

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• Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

  Benjamin Rush

  Mother, School, Evil

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• The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for each person an equivalent result.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Evil, Philosopher, Results

  "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes.

  David Wenham

  Sex, Dark, Lakes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Evil, Perfect

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• On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You could generally find out whether a man had been a horse-thief, or an embezzler or a wife-beater, if you worked hard enough, but acts of kindness, of charity, a gay spirit, vanished without leaving a trace.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Horse, Kindness, Gay

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• whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person.

  Hualing Nieh Engle

  Evil, Giving, People

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• Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat ... and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist.

  Lee Child

  Character, Evil, Doubt

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• As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and evil is murky indeed; and nothing goes quite as we expect. With eye-popping plot twists and rollicking good action, Half a King is definitely a full adventure.

  Rick Riordan

  Kings, Book, Adventure

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