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Be frustrate, all ye stratagems of Hell,
And devilish machinations come to nought.
John Milton1608–1674Paradise Regained (1671), Book I: Lines 72-73
- Good & Evil
Abashed the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Virtue in her shape how lovely
John Milton1608–1674Paradise Lost (1667), Book IVIn context
- Good & Evil
- Virtue
Heaven forbids, ’tis true, some satisfactions;
But we find means to make things right with Heaven.
Molière1622–1673Tartuffe (1664–1669), Act IV, Scene V, spoken by TartuffeIn context
- Religion
The public scandal is what brings offence,
And secret sinning is not sin at all.
Molière1622–1673Tartuffe (1664–1669), Act IV, Scene V, spoken by TartuffeIn context
- Truth & Lies
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essais (wr. 1571–92; pub. 1580–95), Book I, Ch. 22. Of Custom (tr. Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt, 1842)
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
One of the most evil of people is the two-faced person who shows one face to these people and another face to those people.
MMuhammad571–632Muwatta of Imam Malik, Speech, hadith 21
- Character
- Good & Evil
Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.
Evil unchecked grows, Evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964The Unity of India: Collected Writings, 1937-1940 (1942), p. 280
- Good & Evil
The world of today has achieved much, but for all its declared love for humanity, it has based itself far more on hatred and violence than on the virtues that make one human.
Jawaharlal Nehru1889–1964The Discovery of India (1946)
- Good & Evil
- Virtue
…I hope that we will hear no more of all ways of life and all cultures being equally valid, which none of us truly believes but which many people mouth in order to appear broad-minded and generous of spirit.
AJArmand Nicholi Jr.1928–2017
As individuals, men believe they ought to love and serve each other and establish justice between each other. As racial, economic and national groups they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.
Reinhold Niebuhr1892–1971Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), pp. 8-9
- Power
Reason is not the sole basis of moral virtue in man. His social impulses are more deeply rooted than his rational life.
Reinhold Niebuhr1892–1971Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), p.26
- Virtue
What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2
- Power
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900
What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Anti-Christ