John Milton quote about evil from Paradise Lost - So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
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So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
 John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667). copy citation

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Author John Milton
Source Paradise Lost
Topic evil necessity tyrant
Date 1667
Language English
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“And should I at your harmless innocence Melt, as I do, yet publick reason just, Honour and empire with revenge enlarged, By conquering this new world, compels me now To do what else, though damned, I should abhor. So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Then from his lofty stand on that high tree Down he alights among the sportful herd Of those four-footed kinds, himself now one, Now other, as their shape served best his end Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied,” source

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