"The greatest evil is physical pain."

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"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him?"

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Evil, Madness, Nothing

"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

Evil, Reason

"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

Evil, Fascism, Victims

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Evil, Influence

"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."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful."

Kathleen Raine, British Poet

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"Custom is second nature."

Nature

"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

World

"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."

Religion

"God is best known in not knowing him."

God

"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."

Being

"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."

Psychology

"Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things."

Music

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"Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."

"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does."

"Who hasn't got the seeds of evil in him?"

"Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes."

"The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."

"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good."

"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."

"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."

"I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful."

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"Custom is second nature."

"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

"He fashioned hell for the inquisitive."

"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."

"The verdict of the world is conclusive."

"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."

"God is best known in not knowing him."

"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."

"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."

"Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things."