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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.


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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
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GAUTAMA BUDDHA What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: env...
BUDDHA And empty words are evil.
HOMER Do you know why couples now kill themselves? They do so not because they are evil,but because when a...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
BIBLE Since narcissists deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in...
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JAMES CHANOS Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and...
ISOBELLE CARMODY When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. W...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.
BISCHER It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the oppos...
MAX WEBER This kind of violence is contrary to the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. These cartoons should ne...
DAWUD WALID They who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed of, and are not ashamed of what they ought...
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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The misuse of language induces evil in the soul
SOCRATES Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty
SIMONE WEIL That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.
CRAIG FERGUSON You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by...
LEO TOLSTOY To gossip is to sip evil in the soul.
DR HITESH C SHETH Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in g...
BILL JAMES When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
EURIPIDES When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is n...
MAX LERNER Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
SIMONE WEIL I not only think that they are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing, and I t...
HARRY BELAFONTE Is there, as the medieval mystics taught, a "spark" at the core of the Soul, which never consents to...
DEAN INGE Religion is for humans only, Animals are not that evil.
IFTIKHAR SHAHID It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times – it is the way we not only tolerate ...
GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL Now actions vary according to the manner of their performance. Take, for example, that which we are ...
PLATO Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I know there’s evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don’t need to believe in Sa...
TESS GERRITSEN As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I'm stupid, and not evil. And I worship n...
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J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER 'Mabuting loob'.People with GOOD WILL are blessings. They are what the Bible says 'just.' They think...
JOHN B. BEJO Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
MARCUS AURELIUS Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life.
D.H. LAWRENCE But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder...
RICK RIORDAN Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and...
NORA ROBERTS If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
EURIPIDES Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
HESIOD When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.
RAY COMFORT Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
ROY HATTERSLEY The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral ev...
CHARLES TREVELYAN By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.
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CRISS JAMI I blinked at her, suddenly loathing her to the depths of my soul. Not only was she probably rather e...
NICOLE PEELER Nothing enchants the soul so much as young women. They alone are the cause of evil, and there is no ...
BHARITIHARI When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbag...
NICK JOAQUíN The words "I don't care" are an evil entrapment, don't get your foot caught in Satan's snare!
TAURUS MORGAN “Babies are born with pure hearts, minds and spirits; neither good nor evil but the second they ar...
GIDEON O. OMORUYI Evil surrounding can destroy a Good soul.
UDAYVEER SINGH Evil gives you far more strings to pull. But I must say that I have never been interested in the psy...
LARS VON TRIER God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of ...
GARRETT FORT I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse... I think they are a force of e...
GLENN GOULD The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but w...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
DAVID OGILVY Money is not evil, but its love promotes all kinds of evil.
SUNDAY ADELAJA He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good whic...
WALTER SCOTT Fighting evil with evil doesn't diminish it; rather, it increases the evil.
JIM GENOVESE She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Do not talk evil of others; see only good in them.
ATHARVA VEDA Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not eve...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
SAINT BASIL It is not those innocent of evil who are fullest of the life of God, but those who in their own case...
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OSCAR WILDE Evil communication truly corrupts good manner.

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OMOSOHWOFA CASEY No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
CITIUM ZENO No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
ZENO Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil.
WILLIAM SAROYAN In life sometimes people commit suicide not necessarily because they are evil,but because they decid...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We are all capable of evil thoughts, but only very rarely of evil deeds: we can all do good deeds, b...
CESARE PAVESE The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not,or, being willing to do so, cannot;or...
EPICURUS ...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English langu...
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THOMAS CARLYLE I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for go...
WILLIAM GIBSON He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
FRANCIS QUARLES Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
URSULA K. LE GUIN No amount of cancer is good for a body nor evil for a soul.
TROY J. GAINEY Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
GLORIA STEINEM In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evi...
RICK PERRY Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
JOHN CONNOLLY An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil,
because the pure spirit of peace can not d...
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ATHARVA VEDA Do not use either harsh words or negative words. They only bring sadness and weaken the soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He is evil by his very nature.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very mu...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a...
EPICTETUS Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a...
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C.S. LEWIS These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside....
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AMISH TRIPATHI There is evil in everybody. But never let the evil in you overpower the good in you.
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PLATO Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
PLATO It is right to give every man his due.
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PLATO I would fain grow old learning many things.
PLATO Science is nothing but perception.
PLATO It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
PLATO The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
PLATO He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
PLATO As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
PLATO We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
PLATO Democracy passes into despotism.
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PLATO Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
PLATO Philosophy begins in wonder.
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PLATO Courage is a kind of salvation.
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PLATO For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
PLATO The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
PLATO Love is a serious mental disease.
PLATO This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
PLATO Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
PLATO Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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PLATO When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
PLATO All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
PLATO Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
PLATO Life must be lived as play.
PLATO Necessity... the mother of invention.
PLATO He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
PLATO There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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PLATO Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
PLATO The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
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PLATO Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
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PLATO They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
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PLATO A well begun is half ended.
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PLATO Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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PLATO I have good hope that there is something after death.
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PLATO No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
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PLATO To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
PLATO Even the gods love jokes
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PLATO You should not honor men more than truth.
PLATO The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.
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PLATO Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
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PLATO There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
PLATO Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way aroun...
PLATO Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
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PLATO Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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PLATO Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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PLATO You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
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