However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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.
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.