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| People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. -- Edgar Watson Howe |
| Author: Howe, Edgar WatsonEra: 1853 |
| Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. -- Robert South |
| Author: South, RobertEra: 1634 |
| False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. -- Socrates |
| Author: SocratesEra: -469 |
| To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglars in politics as well as mortals. -- William Penn |
| Author: Penn, WilliamEra: 1644 |
| evil exists to glorify the good. evil is negative good. It is a relative term. evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. -- Sivananda |
| Author: SivanandaEra: 1887 |
| I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. -- Voltaire |
| Author: VoltaireEra: 1694 |
| If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. -- Cicero |
| Author: CiceroEra: -106 |
| Strive with thy thoughts unclean before they overpower thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou sparest them and they take root and grow, know well, these thoughts will overpower and kill thee. Beware! Suffer not their shadow to approach. For it will grow, increase in size and power, and then this thing of darkness will absorb thy being before thou hast well realized the black foul monster's presence. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
| Author: Blavatsky, H. P.Era: 1831 |
| Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. -- Seneca |
| Author: SenecaEra: -4 |
| The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -- Joseph Conrad |
| Author: Conrad, JosephEra: 1857 |
| Perils, and misfortunes, and want, and pain, and injury, are more or less the certain lot of every man that cometh into the world. It behooveth thee, therefore, O child of calamity! early to fortify thy mind with courage and patience, that thou mayest support, with a becoming resolution, thy allotted portion of human evil. -- Akhenaton |
| Author: AkhenatonEra: -1375 |
| Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater |
| Author: Lavater, Johann KasparEra: 1741 |
| Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not. -- Chinese Proverb |
| Author: Proverb, ChineseEra: 0 |
| There is nothing good or evil save in the will. -- Epictetus |
| Author: EpictetusEra: 50 |
| Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. -- Sigmund Freud |
| Author: Freud, SigmundEra: 1856 |
| All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author: Johnson, SamuelEra: 1709 |
| The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. -- Pythagoras |
| Author: PythagorasEra: -582 |
| If there were no strong hand at the service of good in the world, evil would multiply. -- Kabbalah |
| Author: KabbalahEra: -1200 |
| Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. -- Robert Burton |
| Author: Burton, RobertEra: 1576 |
| A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. -- John Stuart Mill |
| Author: Mill, John StuartEra: 1806 |
| If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? evil is inevitable, but is also remediable. -- Horace Mann |
| Author: Mann, HoraceEra: 1796 |
| evil and good are God's right hand and left. -- Gamaliel Bailey |
| Author: Bailey, GamalielEra: 1816 |
| I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. -- Euripides |
| Author: EuripidesEra: -480 |
| Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. -- François La Rochefoucauld |
| Author: La Rochefoucauld, FrançoisEra: 1613 |
| Sadness is not an evil. Complain not; what seem to be sufferings and obstacles are often in reality the mysterious efforts of nature to help you in your work if you can manage them properly. Look upon all circumstances with the gratitude of a pupil. All complaint is a rebellion against the law of progress. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
| Author: Blavatsky, H. P.Era: 1831 |
| Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them. -- Thomas Browne |
| Author: Browne, ThomasEra: 1605 |
| The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. -- Diogenes Laertius |
| Author: Laertius, DiogenesEra: -150 |
| No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. -- Seneca |
| Author: SenecaEra: -4 |
| The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. -- Heinrich Heine |
| Author: Heine, HeinrichEra: 1797 |
| Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men. -- The Dhammapada |
| Author: Dhammapada, TheEra: -300 |
| Pain is no evil unless it conquers us. -- George Eliot |
| Author: Eliot, GeorgeEra: 1819 |
| One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything deliberately in the interests of evil, for the sake of evil. Everybody acts in the interests of good, as he understands it. But everybody understands it in a different way. Consequently men drown, slay, and kill one another in the interests of good. -- Gurdjieff |
| Author: GurdjieffEra: 1873 |
| There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil. -- Clarence S. Darrow |
| Author: Darrow, Clarence S.Era: 1857 |
| Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -- Ambrose Bierce |
| Author: Bierce, AmbroseEra: 1842 |
| evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. -- John Henry Newman |
| Author: Newman, John HenryEra: 1801 |
| With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet |
| Author: Shakespeare, WilliamEra: 1564 |
| Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth. -- Titus Maccius Plautus |
| Author: Plautus, Titus MacciusEra: -254 |
| Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. -- I Ching |
| Author: Ching, IEra: -1150 |
| Keep what you have; the known evil is best. -- Titus Maccius Plautus |
| Author: Plautus, Titus MacciusEra: -254 |
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