Francesco Guicciardini Quotes

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

There is good and bad in everyone.

So much good, so much evil. Just add water.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

Everything in life is gray, you know.

There's a dark side to everything.

I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.

It took me a long time to learn both good and bad can exist simultaneously.

Good and evil lay side by side.

Is it good or bad?" she asked Issa. The wrong question, she knew. She just couldn't help herself. "It's both, sweet girl," said Issa. "like everything.

Everybody is naughty, everybody is good.

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.