Of two
Evils we take the less.
Quid nos dura refugimus
Ætas, quid intactum nefasti
Liquimus?
What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.
Magna inter molles concordia.
There is great unanimity among the dissolute.
Fere fit malum malo aptissimum.
Evil is fittest to consort with evil.
Livy—Annates. I. 46.
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The best known evil is the most tolerable.
Livy—Annates. XXIII. 3.
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed,
And feeds the green earth with its swift decay,
Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.
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Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaxlam
scelesta committi.
Wicked acts are accustomed to be done
with impunity for the mere desire of occupation.
Ammianus Marcellinus—Historia. XXX.
9.
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Menander. Found in Dubner's edition of
his Fragments appended to Aristophanes
in Didot's Bibliotkeca Graca. P. 102. L.
101. Quoted by St. Paul. See 1 Corinthians. XV. 33. Same idea in Plato—Republic. 550.
Que honni soit celui qui mal y pense.
Menage. Ascribed to Tallemant in the
Historiettes of Tallemant des Reaux. Vol. I.
P. 38. Second ed. Note in Third ed.,
corrects this. Honi soit- qui mal y pense.
Evil to him who evil thinks. Motto of the
Order of the Garter. Established by Edward III, April 23, 1349. See Sir Walter
Scott—Essay on Chivalry.
And out of good still to find means of evil.
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Genus est mortis male vivere.
An evil life is a kind of death.
Ovid—Epistolce Ex Ponto. III. 4. 75.
Mille mali species, mille salutis erunt.
There are a thousand forms of evil; there
will be a thousand remedies.
Ovid—Remedia Amoris. V. 26.
Omnia perversas possunt corrumpere mentes.
All things can corrupt perverse minds.
Ovid—Tristium. II. 301.
Hoc sustinete, majus ne veniat malum.
Endure this evil lest a worse come upon you.
PaasDRTis—Fables. Bk. I. 2. 31.
Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali
messem metas!
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil
for good that you have done!
Plautus—Epidicus. V. 2. 53.
Pulchrum ornatum turpes mores pejus cosno
collinunt.
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more
than filth.
Plautus—Mostellaria. I. 3. 133.
Male partum male disperit.
Ill gotten is ill spent.
Plautus—Ptmalvs. IV. 2. 22.
E malis multis, malum , quod minimum est,
id minim um est malum .
Out of many evils the evil which is least is
the least of evils.
Plautus—Stichus. Act I. 2.
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Better not do the deed, than weep it done.
Prior—Henry and Emma. L. 308.
Of two evils I have chose the least.
Prior—Imitation of Horace. Bk. I. Ep. IX.
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| text = <poem>Maledicus a malefico non distat nisi occasione.
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer
only in the want of opportunity.
QurNTHiAN—De Institutione Oratorio. XII.
9. 9.
For the good that I would I do not; but the
evil which I would not, that I do.
Romans. VII. 19.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with
good.
Romans. XII. 21.
Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet
no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since
God made the world.
Ruskbj—Stones of Venice. Vol. I. Ch. II.
Al mondo mal non e senza rimedio.
There is no evil in the world without a
remedy.
Sannazabo—Ecloga Octava.
