Anticipate Quote by Anonymous

There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us…

— Jean de la Bruyere

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

— John Adams

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

— Joseph Addison

When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience…

— Charles Wagner

“The desire of wrong things leads to wickedness.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that…

— Amelia Barr

“It's wrong to anticipate evil.”

— Emily Brontë

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us.…

— Seneca the Younger

We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.

— Publilius Syrus

Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.

— Giordano Bruno

When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil conscience ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced.

— Lewis Browne

“[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by…

— Christine de Pizan