Quotes with evil-doers

Quotes 61 till 80 of 385.

  • Dhammapada Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Milan Kundera Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater 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?
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Adam Clarke Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Richard Cecil Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • O. Sitwell Evil and ugliness are the same thing, and dullness is the mother of both.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Benjamin Banneker Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
    As quoted in Friends Intelligencer Vol. XI
    Benjamin Banneker
    African-American almanac author, and surveyor (0 - 1806)
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  • Aristophanes Evil events from evil causes spring.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Thomas Malthus Evil exists in the world not to create despair but activity.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XIX, 15, 1
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Marquis de Sade Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Blaise Pascal Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Samuel Butler Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Agatha Christie Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Virgil Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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