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“For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά

Nothing beautiful without struggle.”
― Plato, The Republic