Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope; and gradually come to see in suffering and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.—Channing.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.—Bible.
If we will rightly estimate what we call good and evil, we shall find it lies much in comparison.—Locke.
Not one false man but does uncountable evil.—Carlyle.
This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still, it brings forth evil.—Coleridge.
The truly virtuous do not easily credit evil that is told them of their neighbors; for if others may do amiss, then may these also speak amiss: man is frail, and prone to evil, and therefore may soon fail in words.—Jeremy Taylor.
Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.—Rousseau.
"One soweth, and another reapeth," is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.—George Eliot.
If you believe in evil, you have done evil.—A. de Musset.
Example.—We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.—Joubert.