#2,668

We can build nothing upon the goodness of man, but we can only build with it.

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#2,607

We should only encourage someone to do something that is worth doing because it is worth it.
Goodness for goodness’s sake, truth for truth’s sake, art for art’s sake.

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#2,544

Only goodness and beauty do not require limits.
Nothing is too beautiful or too good.

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#2,499

Evil does not triumph where good has not become insipid.

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#2,450

Goodness and beauty are not mutually exclusive except where goodness serves as a pretext for envy and beauty for luxury.

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#2,188

Such is the complexity of every historical event that we can always fear that from a good an evil might be born and always hope that from an evil a good might be born.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 356

#1,456

Evil is not more interesting than good, but easier to relate.

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#1,225

Evil promises what it cannot deliver on.
Good delivers on what it does not know how to promise.

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#1,093

Common good, general will, historical necessity, are the names with which the inevitable flatterer christens the whims of force.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 193