Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes About Evil
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How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?
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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.
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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god. [Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]
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Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.
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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]
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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
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Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.
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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
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It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.
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Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.
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Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
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