Quotes
Quotes about Evil
From lower to the higher next,
Not to the top, is Nature's text;
And embryo Good, to reach full stature,
Absorbs the Evil in its nature.
Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
We too often forget that not only is there "a soul of goodness in things evil,"but very generally a soul of truth in things erroneous.
Evil perpetually tends to disappear.
Lord, for the erring thought
Not into evil wrought:
Lord, for the wicked will
Betrayed and baffled still:
For the heart from itself kept,
Our thanksgiving accept.
Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?
We ought to do our neighbour all the good we can. If you do good, good will be done to you; but if you do evil, the same will be measured back to you again.
Oft hath even a whole city reaped the evil fruit of a bad man.
For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another.
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.
He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.
Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.
The agricultural population, says Cato, produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers, and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.... A bad bargain is always a ground for repentance.
To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you."
Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.
The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.
Shall I show you the muscular training of a philosopher? "What muscles are those?"--A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.
Two rules we should always have ready,--that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.
Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything.
