The cardinal method with faults is to overgrow them and choke them out with virtues.
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 is to be esteemed evil which God and nature have fixed with eternal sanction.
Men have never been good, they are not good, they never will be good.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
It’s no use crying over spilt evils. It’s better to mop them up laughing.
“Evil” is first and foremost a religious notion. It means whatever a religion dislikes.
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.