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When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.