"The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing."

Crowley, Aleister on evil   

"So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist."

Eliot, T. S. on evil
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"They that know no evil will suspect none."

Jonson, Ben on evil   

"What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it."

Weber, C. J. on evil   

"Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on evil   

"Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical."

Proverb, American on evil
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"There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good."

Plato on evil   

"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless."

Maugham, W. Somerset on evil   

"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten."

Lawrence, D. H. on evil   

"It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere."

Voltaire on freedom
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"Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create."

Voltaire on doctors   

"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on self-control
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"You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts."

Voltaire on evil
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"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."

Voltaire on virginity
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"She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring."

Sade, Marquis De on virginity   

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Voltaire on freedom
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"May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies."

Voltaire on friends and friendship
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"I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms."

Voltaire on lies and lying
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"When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something."

Browning, Robert on self-control
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"Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root."

Burns, Robert on self-control   

"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."

Woolf, Virginia on self-control   

"Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves."

Miller, Henry on self-control
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"Sex is a short cut to everything."

Cumming, Anne on sex
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"The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency."

Davis, Bette on sex
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"Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time."

Fleming, Ian on sex
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"I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?"

James, P. D. on sex   

"Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant."

Miller, Henry on sex
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"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."

Muggeridge, Malcolm on sex
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely."

Cooley, Charles Horton on sex
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"Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire."

Williams, Bern on genius   

"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works."

Wilde, Oscar on genius
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"Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on genius
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

Wilde, Oscar on genius
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"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

Wilde, Oscar on genius
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"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?"

Wilde, Oscar on art
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"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

Wilde, Oscar on humankind
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"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."

Eckhart, Meister on passion
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"And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!"

Rimbaud, Arthur on god
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