Non enim facile de his, quos plurimum diligimus, turpitudinem suspicamur. We donoteasilysuspectevil ofthosewhomwelovemost.

-Abelard, Peter
c.1132  Historia Calamitatum, ch.6.

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? An older woman knows. But how much older do you have to get before you acquire that kind of wisdom?

-Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
  The Robber Bride, ch.48.

   I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'September1,1939'.

L'homme n'est ni bon ni me¤  chant, il na|"t avec des instincts et des aptitudes. Manisneithergoodnorevil; heisbornwith instinctsand abilities.

-Balzac, Honore¤   de
  La Come¤  die humaine, foreword.

Le mal se fait sans effort, naturellement, par fatalite¤  ; le bien est toujours le produit d'un art. Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always a product of art.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Le Spleen de Paris,'Le Peintre de la vie moderne', pt.11.

La volupte¤   unique et supre"  me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Journaux intimes.'Fuse¤  es', no.2.

All punishment ismischief: all punishment in itself is evil.

-Bentham,Jeremy
  An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, ch.13.

Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

-Bentham,Jeremy
  An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.

And the serpent said unto the woman,Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 3:4^5.

Iwill not againcursetheground anymore for man'ssake; for the imagination of man is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 8:21^2.

   And Jacobsaid unto Pharaoh,The days oftheyears of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: fewand evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Genesis 47:9.

   The L ismy shepherd; Ishall not want.He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valleyof theshadow of death,I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the L for ever.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms 23:1^6.

For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 51:3^5.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the L, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The L is thy keeper: the L is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moonby night.The L shall preservetheefromallevil: he shall preserve thy soul. The L shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDORDORDPsalms121:1^8.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? thenmay yealso dogood, that areaccustomedto do evil.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Jeremiah13:23.

Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you,That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 5:38^9.

That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 5:45.

   But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 6:33^4

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.Thy will be doneinearth, as it isinheaven.Giveus this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive ourdebtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 6:9^13

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew12:34.