However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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  1. When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always. - Mahatma Gandhi

  2. Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends. - Michael Bassey Johnson

  3. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. - George Carlin

  4. When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. - Lao Tzu

  5. We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick. - Stefan Molyneux

More Quotes By Wilhelm Von Humboldt
  1. Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

  2. Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

  3. All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

  4. To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

  5. All growth toward perfection is but a returning to original existence.

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