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MLz Quotary: Apples : “All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite ... All badness has no real estate of its own.  That's why evil likes to invade, trespass, bully, seduce, deceive; it's trying to get something that doesn't belong to it: evil is greed, jealousy, lust, hauteur, gluttony, vengeance  even laziness is a form of false-lordship, the sloth is one who demands entitlement without contribution. I think that most of the time evil comes tempting us in the subtle guise of moderately good things.  Again, it has no substance of its own; it has to pervert something else in order to act. Evil is evil, no doubt about that.  And yet, thanks be to God, evil cannot prevail; furthermore, God can use ALL things together for good for those who love the Lord. As powerful and destructive as evil is, it is yet a grace that it is not a god, it is a grace that evil is only a lie, a de