evil
A selected quote by Franz Kafka.
Evil is whatever distracts.
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
We see men fall from high estate on account of the very faults through which they attained it
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.