Nicolas Chamfort Quotes About Evil
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There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
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Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.
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Nature in causing reason and the passions to be born at one and the same time apparently wished by the latter gift to distract man from the evil she had done him by the former, and by only permitting him to live for a few years after the loss of his passions seems to show her pity by early deliverance from a life that reduces him to reason as his sole resource.
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In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.
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