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"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."
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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."
"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."
"The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil."
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"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."
"Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action."
"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."
"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions."
"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."
"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."
"Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?"
"A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them."
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