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Classic maxims of good and evil

People are inherently good, and people are not born with malicious intentions. The following are the classic aphorisms about good and evil that I have compiled. Welcome to read them!

1. A gentleman is always kind to others. ——Mencius

2. A word of kindness is worth more than a thousand pieces of gold. ——Ge Hong

3. The difference between good and evil lies in the behavior itself, not in the status. ——Shakespeare

4. Having a direct interest in natural beauty... is always a sign of a kind heart. ——Kant

5. Malice and kindness are both magnifying glasses, but the former has a greater magnification.

6. You must work hard to do good, but you must work harder to restrain evil.

7. Among all moral qualities, good nature is the most important in the world. ——Russell

8. It is wiser to do good than to do evil; it is safer to be gentle than violent; it is better to be rational than crazy. ——Lord Browning

9. Doing good things to good people will make them better, and doing good things to evil people will make them more evil. ——Romain Rolland

10. Stimulate the turbid and promote the clear, hate evil and love good.

11. Punish evil and encourage good. ——"Zuo Zhuan"

12. Those who study Buddhism must have correct views and believe in the cause and effect of good and evil, past and future lives, the cycle of life and death, and the realm of saints - Arhats, Bodhisattvas, and Buddhas can control life and death. Don't have wrong knowledge and wrong views, thinking that it's the end of the world when you die. ——Teacher Yinshun

13. Failure to accumulate good deeds is not enough to become famous, and failure to accumulate evil is not enough to destroy the body. ——"Book of Changes"

14. Those who accumulate good things will prosper, and those who accumulate bad things will lose.

15. People like good things. Although good fortune has not yet come, misfortunes are far away. ——Zeng Zi

16. Kindness - the inherent kindness of people. These things evoke in us an indestructible hope that a bright and humane life will eventually be resurrected. ——Gorky

17. Follow the good as the flow, and hate the evil as the enemy.

18. A gentleman is good to others but forgets his own good. ——Yang Zi

19. A good behavior may also be a bad behavior. Whoever wants to save the wolf will harm the sheep. Whoever repairs the wings of a vulture will be responsible for its claws. ——Hugo

20. Doing good to a good person will make him better; doing good to an evil person will make him worse. ——Michelangelo

21. Those who do good things to others will be morally successful, those who have good intentions will have peace in their families, and those who do good deeds will have descendants. ——Fang Xiaoru

22. Kindness is not a kind of knowledge, but a kind of behavior. ——Romain Rolland

23. Do not do good to evil people.

24. Good things cannot be lost, and evil things cannot last. ——"Zuo Zhuan"

25. Don't do evil because it is small, and don't do good because it is small. ——Liu Bei

26. Doing good is like ascending, doing evil is like falling. ——"Zuo Zhuan"

27. People who always think about how to do good things have no time to do good things. ——Tagore

28. Good and evil are the two sides of the same coin. ——Romain Rolland

29. In life, some people are cannibals and some are people who are eaten, but these two kinds of people can be transformed. Sheep can gradually transform into wolves; as for wolves, gradually You can also transform into a sheep at a certain stage. Just like good and evil, there is no absolute good or evil. Even if you are particularly kind, there are also things that are particularly unkind. The most ridiculous thing is that many people, when the sheep transforms into wolves, transform into half and stop there, half sheep and half wolves, and they are not sure whether they are sheep or wolves. ——Liu Zhenyun

30. One kindness stains the heart, and it will be immortal for all eternity. Hundreds of lights shine brightly, thousands of miles are bright. ——Xiao Gang

31. A person must either be a good person or imitate a good person. ——Democritus

32. Evil deeds cannot produce good results.

33. My definition of a hero is a hero who must use force to seek the interests of others or the nation or the country. What is a hero? The word "hero" means serving others, but it does not necessarily mean justice. So there are issues of right and wrong, good and evil. ——Wu Yue

34. I think the definition of good is beneficial to mankind. ——F. Bacon

35. Goodness is the most precious treasure, which can be used in a lifetime; the heart is a good farm, and there is more than enough for a hundred lifetimes.

36. The kinder the person is, the less aware they are of other people’s bad intentions. ——Mile

37. All the works of poets, including proverbs and beautiful songs, have their own origins and are not mixed. Good and evil are the same. ——Yan Zhitui

38. It’s like the chaos mentioned by Zhuangzi. There was an emperor to the north of Chaos, and an emperor to the south. They came to the middle to see Chaos. Chaos had no nose or eyes, but he was very kind to them. The emperor in the south and the emperor in the north wanted to repay Chaos, so they gave them He opened his nose and eyes and dug out seven orifices to let him see the world - one orifice per day. Zhuangzi said: In seven days, chaos will die. When he opened his eyes, he was dead. There is also such a story in the Western Bible: Adam and Eve picked apples from the tree, ate them, knew good and evil, good and bad, and began to think. At this time, they left the kingdom of heaven. This process is the birth of a cultural person and the death of a natural person. But there is a most subtle and beautiful moment in this process, and it is this moment that produces art.

——Gu Cheng

39. The best way to avoid doing bad things is to do good things, because the most difficult thing in the world is to try not to do anything. ——Carlyle

40. There are definitely not only two colors in the world: black and white, two moral qualities of good and evil, two forces of enemy and friend, two opinions of right and wrong, and two classes of wealth. We must be good at facing and grasping a large number of intermediate states, filtered states, disordered states and self-contradictory states, controllable states, plastic states, etc. ——Wang Meng

41. So far, we still can’t guess why Jehovah God placed such a tree in the Garden of Eden, and we can’t guess why eating the fruit from this tree will cause this. serious consequences. In any case, the fruit on this tree of good and evil must have rich connotations, because we see that when people eat it, a series of incredible transformations occur, and this transformation is the fall. ——Fu Xiang

42. Important signs of mature personality: tolerance, tolerance, and kindness. ——Dale Carnegie

43. The ultimate goal of education is to distinguish between good and evil, truth and falsehood, and to make people inclined toward good and truth and to reject evil and falsehood. ——S. Johnson

44. Before reciting the Buddha’s name, you should first believe in the Buddha. You must have four kinds of faith, which is called faith in the Buddha. One believes in fruitful Buddhas, such as our master, Sakyamuni Buddha, the Medicine Master of the East, Amitabha of the West, and all the Buddhas of the ten directions. Second, believing in one’s own Buddha is Buddha nature. Those who can open up wisdom and see their nature in the cause place are called Buddhas. Three believers: There are no good or evil people, no enemies, good or bad, no good or bad, good or bad, everyone is a Buddha. The Four Beliefs believe that all the four births and six paths have the same Vairocana Buddha nature. There is no priority among these four, they are all equal. ——Wang Xianglu

45. Rather than doing good deeds to love others, it is better to say that it is to respect yourself. ——Flaubert

46. The time has come. The most evil Jewish enemies in the world at all times must cease their role for at least a thousand years. ——Hitler

47. Simplicity touches my heart more than clever words. ——Shakespeare

48. People with talent are always kind, frank, straightforward, and never reserved. ―Balzac

49. For human beings, saving a kind soul must be much more meaningful and important than killing an evil life! ——Gu Long

50. If a person does not rise into the sky and become an angel, there is no doubt that he will sink and become a devil. He couldn't stop at sex. The most savage man is not a beast, he is worse, very bad.

——Coleridge