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Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere
desire of occupation.
[Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta
committi.]
Author: Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus)
Source: Historia (XXX)
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
Author: Marcellinus Ammianus (Ammianus Marcellinus)
Source: Historia (XXX)
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Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Prelude to Festus
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Evil beginning houres may end in good.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Knight of Malta (act II, sc. 5)
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Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the
world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to
ordinances,
(Touch not; taste not; handle not;
Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments
and doctrines of men?
Author: Bible
Source: Colossians (ch. II, v. 20-22)
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Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Author: Bible
Source: I Corinthians (ch. XV, v. 33)
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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put
darkness for light, and light for darkness; they put bitter for
sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. V, v. 20)
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For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would
not, that I do.
Author: Bible
Source: Romans (ch. VII, v. 19)
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Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Author: Bible
Source: Romans (ch. XII, v. 21)
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Often the fear on one evil leads us into a worse.
[Fr., Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.]
Author: Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Source: L'Art Poetique (I, 64)
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From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Litany
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The world, the flesh, the devil.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Litany
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I have wrought great use out of evil tools.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: Richelieu (act III, sc. 1, l. 49)
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It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to
triumph.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: Richelieu (act III, sc. 1, l. 49)
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men
to do nothing.
Author: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Source: Richelieu (act III, sc. 1, l. 49)
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States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis
of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking
weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and
growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists,
giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack
our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of
these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.
Author: George Walker Bush
Source: in his State of the Union address
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Inasmuch as ill-deeds spring up as a spontaneous crop, they are
easy to learn.
[Sp., Como el hacer mal viene de natural cosecha, facilmente se
aprende el hacerle.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Coloquio de los Perros
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Of evils one should choose the least.
[Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Officiis (bk. III, 1)
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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.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Philippicoe (V, 11)
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All evils are equal when they are extreme.
[Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: Horace (III, 4)
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Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all
hearts.
[It., Superbia, invidia ed avarizia sono
Le tre faville che hanno i cori accesi.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Inferno (VI, 74)
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It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil
spirit of man.
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
Source: Inferno (VI, 74)
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Of two evils choose the least.
[Lat., E duobus malis minimum eligendum.]
Author: Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Source: Adages
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What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the
dark.
Author: Henry Ford
Source: in the London "Observer"
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The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain.
[Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Faust (I, 6, 174)
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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
Author: George Carlin
Source: None
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Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end.
Author: Talmud
Source: None
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It is a sin to believe in the evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
Author: H. L. Mencken
Source: None
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
Author: W. H. Auden
Source: None
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Source: None
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Source: None
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It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: None
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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Author: Buddha
Source: None
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Author: Samuel Butler
Source: None
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We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
Author: Maria Weston Chapman
Source: None
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All evils are equal when they are extreme.
Author: Pierre Corneille
Source: None
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Evil be to him who evil thinks.
Author: Edward II
Source: None
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
Author: William James
Source: None
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They that know no evil will suspect none.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: None
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There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Source: None
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It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
Author: Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Source: None
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: None
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Source: None
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Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm.
Author: Brian Masters
Source: None
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Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
Author: Stephen Crane
Source: None
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Source: None
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Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
Author: Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau
Source: None
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The love of evil is the root of all money.
Author: American Proverb
Source: None
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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
Author: Ethiopian Proverb
Source: None
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Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
Author: Anne Rice
Source: None
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