My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Experience shows that good and evil are interconnected, with each capable of producing the other.
- In plain terms
- Good can come from bad, and bad can come from good.
- What can you take from it?
- Accept that outcomes are mixed and cyclical.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What bad thing turned out good for you?
- How do you find good in pain?
Another view
Some evils are purely destructive without yielding good.
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