We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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 life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.