The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
-Proverbs "Indic proverb"
The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
-Ayn Rand
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I cannot and will not believe that evil is man’s natural state.
-Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways.
-Gautama Buddha
The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
-Carl Gustav Jung
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
-Henry David Thoreau
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
-Epicurus
I ? This is the very root of all evil.
-H.M. Forester
"The Dissidents: A novella"