Some evils are cured by contempt.

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

— Thomas Jefferson

Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.

— Earl Nightingale

Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.

— George Herbert

Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.

— George Herbert

An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.

— George Herbert

Evils have their comfort, good none can support.

— George Herbert

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred…

— Gautama Buddha

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

— Bertrand Russell

She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency. Now she…

— Cassandra Clare

I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not…

— Judith Levine

Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

— Francis Bacon

“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.”

— Rebecca Solnit

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do…

— Seneca the Younger