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Evil Quotes by Desiderius Erasmus
- The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire…
- This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating…
- Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
- A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people… — Chester A. Arthur