top of page
.png){kind=small}
"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."
Standard
Customized
More
"There are heroes in evil as well as in good."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The evil thing is inside, not out."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The real thing about evil, you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The joy of seeing another person in pain, frustrated or angry is a delicacy only for the most wicked."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again."
Author Name
Personal Development
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it."
Family
"To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise."
Home
"Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little."
Politics
"Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action."
Action
"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
"It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life."
Life
"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."
Man
"The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it."
Heaven
"What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities."
Character
"A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions."
Family
bottom of page