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"The greatest evil is physical pain."
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"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."
"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."
"The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive."
"There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth."
"Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will."
"I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance " You oh God " towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter."
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"There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own."
"Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good."
"Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good?"
"Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?"
"The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king."
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