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“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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“I am malicious because I am miserable.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognise them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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“I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

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“What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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“We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“Evil is easy, and has infinite forms; good is almost unique.”

― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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