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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end.
Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end.
 Of two evils choose the least.
 [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]  
 Of two evils choose the least.
 [Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.] 
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
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.
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.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
All evils are equal when they are extreme.