#evil

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. ↗

— Buddha

#beast #body #evil #feared #friend

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. ↗

— Buddha

#above #evil #prove #purity

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#books #case #devil #god #heard

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#doing #doing good #evil #good #may

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#evil #love #money #quite #root

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#endow #evil #fortune #great #greatest

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will. ↗

— Eric Butterworth

#avoid #consciousness #devil #devils #evil

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun. ↗

— Gabriel Byrne

#devil #enjoyed #everybody #fun #i

They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic. ↗

— Jens Bjørneboe

#injustice #nietzsche #death

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#confounded #contrary #delightful #evil #good