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Keyword: Evil
Expression:

"Wherefore the man who lives according to God, and not according to man, outght to be a lover of good, and therefore a hater of evil.  And since no one is evil by nature, but whoever is evil is evil by vice, he who lives according to God ought to cherish towards evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of his vice nor love the vice because of the man, but hate the vice and love the man.  For the vice being cursed, all that ought to be loved, and nothing that ought to be hated, will remain."
Voice: Saint Augustine
Circumstance: Book 14, Section 6: "Of the character of the human will which makes the affections of the soul right or wrong"
Citation: Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, The City of God, trans., Marcus Dods, Modern Library Paperback ed. (New York: Random House, Inc., 2000), 448.
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The City of God (Modern Library Classics)