"The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing."
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"Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back."
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"To do injustice is the greatest of all evils."
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"To do wrong is the greatest of evils."
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"The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth."
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"Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want."
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"For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes."
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"You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls."
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"Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils."
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"The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad."
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"For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright."
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"Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils."
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"Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil."
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"The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed."
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"Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile."
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"A hard headed woman, a soft hearted man, been the cause of trouble ever since the world began."
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"There is nothing good or evil save in the will."
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"Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper."
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"Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil."
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"Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell."
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