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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

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