Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Friends, Evil, Choices

• When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Running, Country, Loss

• A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Vanity, Evil

• The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Evil, Would Be, States

• There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fear, Fall, Thinking

• Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Evil, Design, Innocent

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