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Biography - Albert Camus:

French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Il y a le bon et le mauvais, ce qui est grand et ce qui est bas, le juste et l'injuste. Je te jure que tout cela ne changera pas.

German
Es gibt Gut und Böse, das Erhabene und das Niedrige, das Gerechte und das Ungerechte. Und ich schwöre dir, dass sich das nicht ändern wird.




See also 

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Quotes for: good


Quotes

Quotes for: good


The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.





Do not wait to be perfect to start something good.





Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.





The best is the enemy of good.





To do good needs no consideration.





Delve within; within is the fountain of good, and it is always ready to bubble up, if you always delve.











Quotes for: Justice


Quotes

Quotes about Justice:


Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.





Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.





'No soul is willing to be robbed of truth', he says. The same holds of justice, too, of temperance, of kindness, and the like. It is most necessary to remember this continually, for thus you will be more gentle to all men.





There is no justice in putting strength on a level above wisdom.





Justice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny.





Justice seeks no reward.











Quotes for: evil


Quotes

Quotes for: evil


The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.





One of the most important and most difficult arts is to unlearn vice.





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.





For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.





Antisthenes used to say that the most useful science was to unlearn evil.





What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.











Quotes

Quotes for: injustice


Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.





Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.





To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.





The right of the strongest is the strongest wrong.





The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.





Only truth can face injustice. Truth, or love.











Quotes

Albert Camus also said...


The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.





In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.





There are more things to admire in men than to despise.





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.





True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.












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