There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.

Buddha

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By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure. The pure and the impure come from oneself: no man can purify another.

Buddha

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Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

William Shakespeare

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Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.

Pope Francis

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