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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

— Franz Kafka

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

— Buddha

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

— Hesiod

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

— Chanakya

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

— Pietro Aretino

There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If you're not aware that this can happen, you can be seduced by evil. We need inoculations against our own potential for evil. We have to acknowledge it. Then we can change it.

— Philip Zimbardo

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

— Christopher Dawson

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

— Charles Darwin

✗Opposing Perspectives

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

— Joseph Conrad

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

— Simon Wiesenthal