Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere
desire of occupation.
[Lat., Solent occupationis read more

Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere
desire of occupation.
[Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta
committi.]

Evil spelled backward is live.

Evil spelled backward is live.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end.

Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of read more

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

I have wrought great use out of evil tools.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from read more

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.