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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes read more
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it
becomes stronger.
[Lat., Omne malum read more
Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it
becomes stronger.
[Lat., Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum fit
pleurumque robustius.]
He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.
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.
Evil be to him who evil thinks.
Evil be to him who evil thinks.
