An idle brain is the devil's workshop. Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of
God. He who seeks evil will find it.
Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no
real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to
disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of
emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine
light on it. The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It
is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. When you choose the lesser of two evils, always
remember that it is still an evil. No
man is justified in doing evil on the
ground of expedience.
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is
ignorance.
To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is
evil, an hour is too long. Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and
greater ones invariably slink in after it. Break the legs of an evil custom. The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who
never make up their minds to be good or evil. No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
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