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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. ↗

— Plato

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To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less. ↗

— Plato

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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. ↗

— Plato

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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. ↗

— Plato

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Keep what you have; the known evil is best. ↗

— Plautus

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I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the beginning of the end. And I don't know if I'm entirely wrong about that, but they did sign my paychecks a year ago, so I guess I'm part of the problem. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

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The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. ↗

— Plutarch

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If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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