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:
No good Book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful.
Your great goodness, out of holy pity,
Absolv'd him with an axe.
Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless, Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow.
God whose gifts in gracious flood
Unto all who seek are sent,
Only asks you to be good
And is content.
It is too late to be on our guard when we are in the midst of evils.