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“Of two evils choose the least.”

Two Evil Two Evils

Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.”

Humans Two Real Suffering Evil Term Conditions Window Artistic Boredom Tolerable Pendulums

Book:The collected works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett

“In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.”

Two Choices Fall Evil Heaven Hell Fine Despair Absolutes Reminders Faustus

Book:Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World

Source: Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World

“Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on by the pious zeal of the Christian church, and in the total amount, several million were found numbered with the dead: the awful effects of religious fanaticism presuming upon the aid of heaven.”

Source: Principles of Nature Or A Developement of the Moral Causes of Hapiness and Misery Among the Human Species

“There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside people, like in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The other kind of evil is predestined evil. It falls on you like a stroke of lightning. That's the scary stuff, but, in a way, it's the stuff you don't have to worry about. I gotta worry whether or not I'm getting cavities. I gotta worry about whether cigarettes are giving me cancer. Those are things I can change. Don't give me lightning out of a clear sky. If that hits me I just say, "That's probably the way God meant it to be."”

“Our world is guided by two principles and sources: God and the devil. All that is better in the world of men has its source in God, and all that is bad has the devil as its principle and source. In the final account, all good comes from God, and all evil from the devil.”

Men World Inspirational Two Christian Evil Religious Principles Source Devil Accounts Finals Orthodox Our World

Author:Justin Popovic

“There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our constitution.”

Two Government Political Evil Party Leader Constitution Humble Opposition Division Republic Dread Political Parties Apprehension Two Party System Great Party Opposition Parties Greatest Political

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.”

Said Two Evil Animal Ignorance Envy Two Things

Author:Voltaire

“There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.”

People Knows Two Evil Animal Two Things Pet Envied

Author:Voltaire