When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
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.
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.