The evil you know is better than the evil you don't.

souls are not so greatly injured by the temptations which assail them from outside, as from those evil thoughts which poison them within. "there may be evil thoughts of many kinds, envious thoughts, discontented thoughts, profane thoughts, unkind thoughts, angry thoughts, avaricious thoughts, impure thoughts.

It's dangerous to think of yourself as a hero and someone as else as a villain. it gets in the way of empathy.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. - w.h.Auden

life is neither good or evil, but only the place for good and evil.- Marcus Aurelius

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces, -Philip Zimbardo

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.-Aristotle

A wisp of evil can lure the vulnerable into a miasma of wickedness.- Micheal Shaw