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"I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be."
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"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil."

"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."

"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."

"What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it."

"He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil."
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"I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them."

"The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness."

"Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well."

"I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way."
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