As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.
There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.
The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.
The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.
Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.
I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.
"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."
Let us confess it: evil strides the world.
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.
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