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Evil Quotes - Page 64

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.

Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.88, Broadview Press

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.429, Macmillan

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Colloquia Mensalia ch. 2 (1566) (translation by Henry Bell)

Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.

"L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Fifth Day, Novel XLII (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.

Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace

L. J. Smith (2014). “Vampire Diaries: The First Bite 4-Book Collection: The Awakening, The Struggle, The Fury, Dark Reunion”, p.17, Harper Collins