A Quote by Miguel de Cervantes
Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.
I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition.
The greatest evils, are from within us; and from ourselves also we must look for the greatest good.
No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.
Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.
The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.
Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.
The greatest tragedy that can befall a person is the atrophy of his mind.
The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.
No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply not revealed to us. Rather, in the moment of the cross, it becomes clear that evil is utterly subverted for good.... If God can take the greatest of evils and turn them for the greatest of goods, then how much more can he take the lesser evils which litter human history, from individual tragedies to international disasters, and turn them to his good purpose as well.
Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles.
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