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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.


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Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you
PHAEDRUS When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
EURIPIDES Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
SENECA But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mis...
BIBLE Is there any other way than this to describe treachery and disgrace? May evil befall them, for evil ...
SADDAM HUSSEIN The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We must submit to the refining process in order to become a part of something greater than ourselves...
ANGEL DYKES I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only...
ROBERT WALSER We submit to you our request for your involvement and your good office in the present circumstances ...
KOFI ANNAN Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Battle not with monsters lest you become one.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY A greater persecution shall befall the Christian Church than has ever been in Africa, and will last ...
NOSTRADAMUS In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no great...
ALICE MORSE EARLE To submit isn’t to be forced. It’s to yield to a force greater than your own, in order to...
DIANNA HARDY Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Old enemies must be friends when a greater evil looms.
RAYMOND E. FEIST We can overcome evil with greater good.
LAURA BUSH There is no greater evil than anarchy.
SOPHOCLES Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a...
EPICTETUS Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a...
EPICTETUS Daily confession;As long as am standing under the sun,nor the moon,no evil orchesrated by man either...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evil...
PLATO If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if ...
MOLIèRE You are better than your past, greater than your present, and brighter than your future.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO And do not make your oaths a means of deceit between you, lest a foot should slip after its stabilit...
QURAN A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for hol...
POPE BENEDICT XVI There is no greater evil than men's failure to consult and to consider.
SOPHOCLES Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Lorsen shook his head in amazement. 'You truly are disgusting.'
'I would be the last to disagre...
JOE ABERCROMBIE There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
SOPHOCLES You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I ...
ROBERT FANNEY For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil tha...
BIBLE Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
JEWISH PROVERB To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
ABU BAKR The past is the past but the present and the future is greater.
JANA K ALEXANDER I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about ...
PAMELA ANDERSON DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has dee...
AMBROSE BIERCE We have to live in the present. I was very focused and I knew what I had to do to beat him. At the m...
TOMMY ROBREDO The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot inthe present, ... But asalways, you just ne...
BOB HAMMOND Do you wonder for what reason, Theodorus, notwithstanding your frequent requests and importunities,...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
THOMAS FULLER There cannot be greater wrong than to never know the evil and good of love in life.
SORIN CERIN Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I ...
JULIUS SCHWARTZ Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
ALI TALIB Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out
YIDDISH PROVERB Do not be too hard, lest you be broken; do not be too soft, lest you be squeezed.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Thus it shall befall Him, who to worth in women over-trusting, Lets her will rule: restraint she wil...
JOHN MILTON So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot ...
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
STANISLAUS I Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
KING STANISLAUS OF POLAND In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to bel...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for hol...
POPE BENEDICT XVI Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
DEMOSTHENES Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master
DEMOSTHENES It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Take heed lest you stumble.
UNKNOWN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW You achieve nothing wishing to be trained. If you want to get better, go get trained
SOTONYE ANGA Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to b...
BLAISE PASCAL TO GAIN POWER OVER YOURSELF YOU MUST FIRST SUBMIT TO THE GOD IN YOU....
SHENIKWA MALONE Never give them the power to make you submit or rebel.
MARSHALL ROSENBERG If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly...
EPICURUS Don't love the things you own, lest they own you.
UNKNOWN A great present is one you can open forever.
NERRYMIAH SCIPIO The present indictment is based entirely on crimes committed since the beginning of 1999 in Kosovo.
LOUISE ARBOUR there are reasons to think that history might be an imperfect guide to the present situation.
NORMAN WILLIAMS The DA is about building on the good of the present for a better future. We believe Cape Town can be...
HELEN ZILLE Most of your reactions are echoes from the past. You do not really live in the present.
GAELIC PROVERB Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what t...
ARNOLD H. GLASGOW Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time....
WILLIAM JAMES We both agreed that we have to talk about the present and the future now.
GERHARD SCHROEDER I think what's very disturbing about the present crisis is that there are a number of things going o...
DESMOND LACHMAN The present crisis has been the most predictable, the most senseless, boring and short-lived of all ...
VYACHESLAV NIKONOV This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling S...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists
BENJAMIN DISRAELI That's certainly under review at the present time.
BILL MISKELL The future is made of the same stuff as the present
SIMONE WEIL San Francisco at the present time is like the crater of a volcano, around which are camped tens of t...
JACK LONDON The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of ...
AGNES REPPLIER The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot in
the present, ... But as
always, y...
BOB HAMMOND Consumers still remain optimistic about the future despite having some concerns about the present. T...
STEVEN WOOD We want a deal. They're here. They're engaged. There's no time like the present.
PJ CROWLEY The present will not long endure
PINDAR The events show how desperate the present royal regime is. It is becoming paranoid. The movement is ...
DHRUBA ADHIKARY Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine....
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW are in the present deployment condition, even an unintentional, even a small incident can spark a ch...
ABDUL SATTAR God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;And though the present I regret,I'm gra...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN The present situation in other political parties is very bad. We should not allow the problems confr...
SONIA GANDHI endure the pain of the present to make tomorrow better.
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI Everybody has their own ideas of Shangri-La ... I tried to teach myself to enjoy the present, enjoy ...
MARK KNOPFLER

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PHAEDRUS A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness.
PHAEDRUS I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
PHAEDRUS You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
PHAEDRUS Success tempts many to their ruin.
PHAEDRUS In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
PHAEDRUS The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
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PHAEDRUS I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.
PHAEDRUS First appearance deceives many.
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PHAEDRUS Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.
PHAEDRUS The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.
PHAEDRUS Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.
PHAEDRUS Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
PHAEDRUS The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.
PHAEDRUS Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
PHAEDRUS Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth
PHAEDRUS To add insult to injury.
PHAEDRUS There is danger in both belief and unbelief.
PHAEDRUS The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.
PHAEDRUS The humble suffer when the mighty disagree.
PHAEDRUS Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble.
PHAEDRUS It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful.
PHAEDRUS Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed.
PHAEDRUS Bores to themselves, to others caviar
PHAEDRUS The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.
PHAEDRUS have out of fondness for your offspring attributed to it quite the opposite of its real function. Th...
PHAEDRUS In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain
PHAEDRUS The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking.
PHAEDRUS The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.
PHAEDRUS It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard
PHAEDRUS Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him
PHAEDRUS Submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you
PHAEDRUS That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer
PHAEDRUS Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example
PHAEDRUS The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking
PHAEDRUS A learned man has always riches in himself.
PHAEDRUS The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.
PHAEDRUS Rashness brings success to few, misfortune to many. [Lat., Paucis temeritas est bono, multis malo....
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Whoever has fallen from his former high estate is in his calamity the scorn even of the base. [La...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth....
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) They who delight to be flattered, pay for their folly by a late repentance. [Lat., Qu se laudari ...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. [Fr., La patience est amere, mais son fruit est doux.]
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Those who give bad advice to the prudent, both lose their pains and are laughed to scorn. [Lat., ...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who kno...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. [Lat., Verum est aviditas dives, et pauper ...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) All the old knives That have rusted in my back, I drive in yours.
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis medit...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Every one ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. [Lat., Sua quisque exempla debet...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) It is a sin for a plebian to grumble in public. [Lat., Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est.]
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [Lat., Id demum est homini turpe...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each person's back he has given one full of...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) He carried and nourished in his breast a snake, tender-hearted against his own interest. [Lat., C...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. [Lat., Nisi utile est quod facimus, stulta est glo...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) I never knew any many in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christi...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Since you go where all have gone before, why do you torment your your disgraceful life with such me...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Out of breath to no purpose, in doing much doing nothing. A race (of busybodies) hurtful to itself...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) What wilt thou do to thyself, who hast added insult to injury? [Lat., Quid facies tibi, Injuri...
PHAEDRUS (THRACE OF MACEDONIA) Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves. [Lat., Saepe intereunt aliis medit...
PHAEDRUS THRACE OF MACEDONIA