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Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XXVIIIIn context
- Emotion
- Good & Evil
It is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XXVIIIIn context
- Good & Evil
There is one thing that every individual can do,⁠—they can see to it that they feel right.
Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Volume II, Chapter XLVIn context
Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Chapter IIn context
- Character
“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural,” answered Miss Rebecca. “I’m no angel.”
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter IIIn context
- Good & Evil
Let us never fear robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Les Misérables (1862), Volume I: Fantine, Book First: A Just Man, Chapter VIIIn context
- Fear
- Good & Evil
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering, Chapter VIIn context
- Religion
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book III: The Sensualists, Chapter IIIIn context
- Beauty
- Good & Evil
People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter IVIn context
- Animals
- Good & Evil
I think if the devil doesn’t exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book V: Pro and Contra, Chapter IVIn context
- God
- Good & Evil
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Anna Karenina (1878), Part Eight, Chapter 12In context
- Good & Evil
- Virtue
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene I, spoken by AllIn context
- Good & Evil
And oftentimes to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths;
Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
In deepest consequence.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene III, spoken by BanquoIn context
- Good & Evil
- Truth & Lies
Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene IV, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Good & Evil
Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene V, spoken by Lady MacbethIn context
- Good & Evil