#evil

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#god #just #knows #never #terrible

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#adultery #another #caught #could #evil

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#bed #eats #evil #human #our

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#changed #devils #humility #into #makes

There is no possible source of evil except good. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#except #good #possible #source

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#evils #expect #must #new #remedies

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#goodness #most #piety #solid #vice

A church debt is the devil's salary. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#debt #devil #salary

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#art #done #effort #evil #fate

I'm retired from the daredevil business. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#daredevil #i #retired