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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.
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Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.
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All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.
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Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
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Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
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If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
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In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
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In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
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