"The evil that we know is best."

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"We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us."

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, American Politician

Evil, Prohibition, Will

"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."

Konrad Lorenz, Austrian Scientist

Evil, Value

"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Evil, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Evil, Resolution

"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

Evil, Gain, Loss, Proof

"Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive."

Giraldus Cambrensis, Welsh Clergyman

Evil, Mind, Vices

"If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Evil, God, Heaven, Creation

"When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode: when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss; then, whether he take to the serving out of red tape, or to the kindling of red fire, he is the very Devil."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Evil, Devil, Virtue, Appearance

"Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?"

Alfred de Vigny, French Poet

Evil, Example, Facts, Memory

"Keep what you have; the known evil is best."

Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman Poet

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"Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising."

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"We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us."

"Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value."

"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do."

"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."

"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."

"Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive."

"If we believe that god is the creator of evil, maybe there is evil also in heaven, if that is the case, we are not out of the woods yet."

"Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?"

"Keep what you have; the known evil is best."

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"It well becomes a young man to be modest."

"No man is wise enough by himself."

"Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising."

"A word to the wise is enough."

"He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense."

"A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole."

"Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability."

"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."