A Quote by Sophocles
All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.
The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.
The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.
There are no evils in Nature, there are only evils of Man.
The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.
Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.
Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.
Real evils can be either cured or endured; it is only imaginary evils that make people anxiety-ridden for a lifetime.
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.
Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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