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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Good and Evil XXII</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And one of the elders of the city said, &quot;Speak to us of Good and Evil.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he answered: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts, it drinks even of dead waters. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are good when you are one with yourself. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are good when you strive to give of yourself. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, &quot;Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For to the fruit giving is a need, as receiving is a need to the root. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even those who limp go not backward. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are only loitering and sluggard. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pity that the stags cannot teach swiftness to the turtles. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness: and that longing is in all of you. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But in some of you that longing is a torrent rushing with might to the sea, carrying the secrets of the hillsides and the songs of the forest. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in others it is a flat stream that loses itself in angles and bends and lingers before it reaches the shore. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But let not him who longs much say to him who longs little, &quot;Wherefore are you slow and halting?&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the truly good ask not the naked, &quot;Where is your garment?&quot; nor the houseless, &quot;What has befallen your house?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Khalil+Gibran">Khalil Gibran</a><div class=q>
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And he answered: 

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 hu..."></div>
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