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I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.