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"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."
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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."
"The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man."
"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
"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."
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does."
"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."
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"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."
"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."
"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."
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