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"The greatest evil is physical pain."
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"When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil."
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"Evil is whatever distracts."
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"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."
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"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
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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."
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"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does."
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"The evil thing is inside, not out."
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"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
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"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
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"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."
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"By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity."
Faith
"There is no possible source of evil except good."
Evil
"You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You."
Spiritual
"The deformity of Christ forms you. If he had not willed to be deformed, you would not have recovered the form which you had lost. Therefore he was deformed when he hung on the cross. But his deformity is our comeliness. In this life, therefore, let us hold fast to the deformed Christ."
Religion
"For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?"
Spiritual
"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"
Formula
"Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence."
Religion
"The end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest."
Philosophy
"And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand."
Debate
"What should you, O man, do, you who seek your own glory whenever you do anything good, while when you do something bad, you figure out ways to blame God."
Ethics
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