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TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one do? According to men's habits an...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Charity begins at home. [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) You are harping on the same string. [Lat., Cantilenam candem canis.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Fare ye well, and give us your applause. [Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. [Lat.,...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi e...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Knavery's now its own reward. [Lat., His nunc praemium est qui recta prava faciunt.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall? [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si c...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly.
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) From others' slips some profit from one's self to gain. [Lat., Hoc scitum'st periculum ex aliis fa...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) The nets not stretched to catch the hawk, Or kite, who do us wrong; but laid for those Who do ...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an af...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. [Lat., Quoniam id fieri quod vis...
TERENCE (PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER) When you will, they wont, when you wont, they will.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Too much of anything is bad.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER When in good health we easily give good advice to the sick.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.]
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Do not waste bricks. (Waste your labor.) [Lat., Ne laterum laves.]
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Charity begins at home. [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER You tell a tale to a dead man.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER You stick in the same mire.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER You made this mess yourself, and now you must eat it all up.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER You kick against the goad.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER You harp perpetually on the same string.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER You are his father by nature, I by counsel.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Words pay no debts.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER With his own weapon do I stab him.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Fortune helps the brave.
PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome
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MENANDER Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
P. J. O'ROURKE Marriage is a necessary evil
AMIT ABRAHAM Dialogue is a necessary evil.
FRED ZINNEMANN If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
ALBRECHT DURER A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
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JIMMY CARTER War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a go...
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David: Good thing I'm only mod...
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AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil
ANTISTHENES All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.
CARLTON SMITH I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.
AMY CARTER The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.

(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna)
HERACLITUS It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.
EDMUND BURKE All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F. H. BRADLEY The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
FRANCIS H. BRADLEY The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
FRANCIS H. BRADLEY He gives twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.] - credited to Publius Syrus ...
JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) He gives twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.] - credited to Publius Syrus ...
JOHN MILTON Before we set out to do good, it is necessary to consider if it will result in evil. It is equally n...
OSHO There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the uni...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Going into debt is never easy and, in your case, going deeper into debt is a necessary evil.
GREG ZANDLO The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
ROBERT BROWNING The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing
EDMUND BURKE It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
UNKNOWN That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
HORACE Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Protectionism has to be avoided. Protectionism is not only on goods but also in the area of services...
MANMOHAN SINGH Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very mu...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE Work is necessary for those that do not just want to be spectators on earth
SUNDAY ADELAJA stop looking for job, create one.
SOTONYE ANGA Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
THOMAS PAINE The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
FRANZ KAFKA A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wic...
JOSEPH CONRAD It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evi...
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THORNTON WILDER Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every w...
JOSEPH CONRAD The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every ...
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NORM TOMLINSON I've heard it said that umpires are necessary evil. Well, we are necessary, but we are not evil....
DOUG HARVEY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER ...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work,...
JOHN RUSKIN All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing...
EDMUND BURKE If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re...
WILLIAM SAFIRE If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re...
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TERENCE STAMP Nur weil
mein Leben
unlogisch
ist,
heißt das
nicht, dass es
nicht fun...
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PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.
PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fea...
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS The unknown always seems sublime
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