Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.