Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
Hesiod
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
Lionel Trilling
There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
Plautus
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
Nick Hornby
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