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Letter "E" » evils
«Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man; other evils will mend, this is every day getting worse»
«Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to»
«But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Liberty,
Virtue,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
evils, folly, in restraint, madness, restraint, tuition, vice
«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»
«If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
evils, extensively, miseries, portion, practiced, vanished
«All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.»
«Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
at the worst, evils, hope, in a bad way, in reality, man, most evil, Much Evil, Of Man, prolonging, prolongs, reality, the very worst, tormenting, torments, worst
«Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Evil,
Hope
| Keywords:
evils, Of Man, prolonging, prolongs, torment, tormenting, worst
«Ignorance is the mother of all evils»
«In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
admit, applied, avoided, complaints, evils, impatience, properly, remedy, remove, wastes
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