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"The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is..."
"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless."
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"The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it."
"Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit."
"He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace."
"At the beginning of the cask and the end take thy fill but be saving in the middle; for at the bottom the savings comes too late."
"So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech."
"Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds."
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