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All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil’s alphabet – the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.