evil (n.) is always imaginary, except pain of body and remorse of conscience.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Evil

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always new, marvelous, intoxicating.Simone Weil

Evil is never intended as evil. — James Carse

Goodness renders reality transparent and sharp, evil makes it opaque and soft, eros throbbing and elastic.

Recast in definition form from: “… to think of continuity, but as it is the nature …”

is always imaginary, except pain of body and remorse of conscience.

All our evils are imaginary, except pain of body and remorse of conscience.

is exterior to nature and always comes as compensation for what ought to lack nothing.

Recast in definition form from: “… It supervenes upon nature. But always by way of compensation …”

is homemade: 'Madmen! know that all your evils proceed from yourselves!'

Recast in definition form from: “My mind, elevated by these contemplations, ascended to the Divinity, and thence, seeing my fellow creatures follow in the blind track of their prejudices that of their errors and misfortunes, I cried out to them, in a feeble voice, which they could not hear: "Madmen! know that all your evils proceed from yourselves!”

has its author in man: seek no further, thou art he, and take away man's handiwork and all is well.

Recast in definition form from: “O Man! seek no further for the author of evil; thou art he. There is no evil but the evil you do or the evil you suffer, and both come from yourself. Take away our fatal progress, take away our faults and our vices, take away man's handiwork, and all is well.”

draws a false complaint when we say God does not prevent us doing wrong, for that is to complain that he gave us so excellent a nature: should he have restricted man to instinct and made him a fool?

Recast in definition form from: “Could it have made our nature a contradiction, and have given the prize of well-doing to one who was incapable of evil? To prevent a man from wickedness, should Providence have restricted him to instinct and made him a fool?”

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