Evil Quotes

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good – he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad – he and the world is destroyed.

Love should be shown without pretending. Hate evil, and hold on to what is good.

Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil. With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Evil comes from a failure to think.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.

The melancholy joys of evils pass’d, For he who much has suffer’d, much will know.