Cursed is the man who dies but the evil done by him survives.
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:
Between two evils, I generally like to pick the one I never tried before.
Who is a good man? He who keeps the decrees of the fathers, and both human and divine laws.
Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are easy to learn.
Three sparks—pride, envy, and avarice—have been kindled in all hearts.
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation.
A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
We care so little of other people that even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.