It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.
Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.
Being evil is easy.
An evil life is a kind of death.
To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
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.