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He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
(Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.), Greek didactic poet. Works and Days, 265.)
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A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
(Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), British novelist, poet. Far from the Madding Crowd, ch. 18 (1874).)
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I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. September 1, 1939 (l. 19-22). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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"I know all evil and all good—I also know what is beyond evil and good"Msaid Zarathustra.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 10, p. 196, selection 5[1], number 76, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Unpublished fragments dating to November 1882, February 1883.
Originally meant to be attributed to Zarathustra in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.)
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The bearer of evil tidings,
When he was halfway there,
Remembered that evil tidings
Were a dangerous thing to bear.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Bearer of Evil Tidings.")
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If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.
(Joseph De Maistre (1753-1821), French diplomat, philosopher. repr. In The Works of Joseph de Maistre, ed. Jack Lively (1965). The Count, in "First Dialogue," Les Soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg (1821).)
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Evil be to him who evil thinks.
(Honi soit qui mal y pense.)
(Edward III (1312-1377), British King of England. Motto of the Order of the Garter, quoted in Historiae Anglicae, Polydore Vergil (1535).
alleged remark at the falling of the Countess of Salisbury's garter, presumably when the Order of the Garter was founded in 1344. No contemporary evidence whatsoever exists for the attribution, but the traditional tale was current in Henry VIII's reign, when Vergil was writing.)
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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
(Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946), U.S. essayist, aphorist. "Other People," Afterthoughts (1931).)
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No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
(George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist, editor. Daniel Deronda, bk. 7, ch. 57 (1876).)
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None of them has
the sense of evil that I have,
evil that jaw breaker,
that word-wife.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Letters to Dr. Y.....")
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