Good and Evil Quotes
Shakespeare, Kurt Vonnegut, Eric Hoffer, Cicero and Seneca lead. Tolstoy, in The First Step (1892), says that to be good and lead a good life means to give others more than one takes from them. Eleanor Farjeon, in two books from the early 1920s, makes a better joke of it: it is no use crying over spilt evils, it is better to mop them up laughing.
The line about fighting monsters and gazing into the abyss is credited to Mark Twain and marked misattributed. The notes give a German text and a modern translation, which is the Nietzsche version. The “pass through this world but once” passage, credited to Stephen Grellet, is disputed, and a passage on living for something, credited to Thomas Chalmers, is flagged misattributed.
Most quoted on good and evil:
Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.
No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.
Frankly, I think I might scare [the parties], and that would be a good thing.
Yet fair are days in summer; and more fair
The growths of human goodness here and there.
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
Aristotle dines when it seems good to King Philip, but Diogenes when he himself pleases.