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Evils Quotes by Epicurus
- Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is…
- Whatsoever causes no annoyance when it is present, causes only a groundless pain in the expectation. Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing…
- If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another
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- I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney… — Roseanne Barr
- We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch… — Samuel Johnson
- If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown… — Joseph Addison
- There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow
- Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.… — Isaiah Berlin
- Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. — Ambrose Bierce
- My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything;… — Aeschylus