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I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

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Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

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Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth. ↗

— Hans Bender

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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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