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“For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

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“There never has been a nation without a religion, that is, without an idea of good and evil.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

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“our labour preserves us from three great evils—weariness, vice, and want.”

― Voltaire, Candide

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“It was important . . . to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“Good and ill have not changed since yesteryear; nor are they one thing among Elves and Dwarves and another among Men. It is a man’s part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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“If a man is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we were to excuse a bad man on the same grounds we would be laughed at.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

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“I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.”

― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

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“In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.”

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

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“Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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