Voltaire Quotes

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

The better day, the worse deed.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

No one may do evil that good may come.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.

I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life.

Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.