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Evil Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
- If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and…
- It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
- No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
- The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom…
- Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and…
- Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.
- Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
- How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis…
- Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
- It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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- Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
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