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Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

In my view, the most damaging evils that are perpetrated upon us are through some abstract notion about good, where we're willing to sacrifice individuals in the present for some great vision of an improved or perfect future.

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.