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"Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil."	I Ching
"The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; - Most of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow."	Charles Churchill
"Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"It's not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them."	Isabel Colegate
"Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."	Confucius
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."	Joseph Conrad
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."	Joseph Conrad
"No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good."	Mandell Creighton
"It's impossible to reach good conclusions with bad information. . . . We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts."	Mort Crim
"Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return."	Samuel Cunningham
"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."	Charles Robert Darwin
"Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose."	Richard Dawkins
"Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles."	Marquis de Sade
"Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil."	Marquis de Sade
"The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late."	Daniel Defoe
"We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?"	Dorothe Deluzy
"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it."	Charles Dickens
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