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Evil Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
- The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves…
- The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
- To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
- The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.
- It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
- Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.
- I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus…
- The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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