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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. – Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes, 1911

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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. – Hungarian Proverb

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It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles. – Niccolò Machiavelli

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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson

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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

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