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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. -- Jonathan Swift
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. -- Pope John Paul II
Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them. -- Karen Russell
It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of. -- Augustus Hare
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters. -- Geoffrey Fisher
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil. -- Simon Winchester
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love. -- Jeff Greenfield
Russian talk of political evil is as natural as eating ... -- Joseph Brodsky
Evil is a choice one makes, not a natural state of being. -- Morgan Rhodes
There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental. -- Philip Sidney
Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state. -- Robert E. Howard
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. -- Ernest Becker
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation. -- Charles Spurgeon
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill. -- Saint John Chrysostom
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil. -- Pope John Paul II
we grant evil freewill (or freewill to evil) is remaining in all natural men: we believe that freewill to good, is from grace and regeneration. -- Henry Ainsworth
Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil. -- Plutarch

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