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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. ↗

— Jean Paul

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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. ↗

— Petrarch

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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. ↗

— John Cheever

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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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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. ↗

— Maimonides

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Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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