Evil Quotes
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.
Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Evil men have no songs. How is it that the Russians have songs?
If you are too weak to give yourselves your own law, then a tyrant shall lay his yoke upon you and say: "Obey! Clench your teeth and obey!" And all good and evil shall be drowned in obedience to him.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"
For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.
Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep - into the evil.
One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
I love something: and scarcely do I love it completely when the tyrant in me says: "I want that in sacrifice." This cruelty is in my entrails. Behold! I am evil.
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