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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
-John Locke
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Good And Evil, Reward And Punishment, Are

John Locke
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
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When one has once accepted and absorbed evil, it no longer demands the unfitness of the means. the ulterior motives with which youabsorb and assimilate evil are not your own but those of evil.... evil is whatever distracts. evil knows of the good, but good does not know of evil. knowledge of oneself is something only evil has. one means that evil has is the dialogue.... one cannot pay evil in installments--and one always keeps on trying to.
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