Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Of two evils choose the prettier.
At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.
Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not. It is nothing, then, either to the living or to the dead, for with the living it is not and the dead exist no longer.
Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.
To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.
The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
All evils are equal when they are extreme.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Most "necessary evils" are far more evil than necessary.
Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet. . . One should count each day as a separate life.
In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain, You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'. And the stresses of life can take you off the right path, Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff. . . We gotta hold it down so we can move on past All adversities, so we can get through fast.
To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?
All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.