Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
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