It became clear to me that everything which is corrupted is good. For they wouldn't be able to be corrupted if they were not good, or if they were the highest good [being which is reality itself]. If they were the highest goods, they would be incorruptible; and if they weren't at all good, they wouldn't contain anything which could be corrupted. So either corruption harms nothing (which can’t be the case), or –what is most obvious– all things that are corrupted are deprived of a good. Now, if they are deprived of every good, they will in no way exist at all…Therefore, whatsoever things exist are goods; and that evil whose origin and being I was seeking was not a substance…. Now, in parts of it there are certain things reckoned as evil because they are not fit for certain other things. Yet these very same things fit other things and are good for them and for themselves.
Saint Augustine, Confessions, VII 18-19
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