Aeschines Quotes, War Quotes, Evil Quotes

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

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Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.

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To be effective, morality has to be reasoned (or worked out). To want ("vouloir", Fr.) to repress evil only by coercion, and to obtain morality by a sort of training with the help of constraint, without motivating it from within, is to make it an unnatural result, devoided of lastind value.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

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The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

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Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

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If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

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Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

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People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

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Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you.

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Uncertainty and danger are always closely allied, thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities.

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Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by trying to make it too easy for oneself to get it, and the Evil by imposing all too unfavorable conditions of warfare on it. In the second case one cheats the Good by keeping as aloof from it as possible, and the Evil by hoping to make it powerless through intensifying it to the utmost.

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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

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What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

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Particularly the broad masses of the people can be moved only by the power of speech.

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Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil.

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It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

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Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

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