Make haste in doing good; check your mind from evil; for the mind of him who is slow in doing meritorious actions delights in evil.
-Dhammapada "Dhammapada"
Make haste in doing good; check your mind from evil; for the mind of him who is slow in doing meritorious actions delights in evil.
Apologies only account for the evils which they cannot alter.
-Benjamin Disraeli
When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
-Anne Rice
"Interview with the Vampire"
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
-Mark Twain
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
-Terry Pratchett
"I Shall Wear Midnight"