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“The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement.”

Way May Long Doe Facts Life Is Certain Evil Greater Danger Errors Expected Improvement Death Penalty

Book:Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence

Source: Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence

“The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing. . . .Again, errors have assailed her; but in fact, the greater the number of errors that have arisen, the more has the truth been made manifest. . . . Nor has the Church failed before the assaults of demons: for she is like a tower of refuge to all who fight against the Devil.”

Made Facts Fighting Church Numbers Greater Grew Truth Is Devil Errors Saint Demon Manifest Refuge Towers Persecution Assault Indestructible

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.”

Ifs Evil Strong Opinion Greater Errors Unity Circles Glorious Centre Desirable

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think

“There can be no greater error then in supposing that capital is increased by non-consumption.”

Greater Errors Consumption Supposing Supposing That

Author:David Ricardo

“I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error." The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement, amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason.”

“The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.”

Feels Facts Fall Greater Danger Errors Secure Liable Liability

Book:Selections from the Writings of Dr. Whately

Source: Selections from the Writings of Dr. Whately

“When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.”

Happens Greater Ordinary Trade Errors Profit Trading Dealer

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.”

People Men Ideas Young Common Greater College Fit Men And Women Errors Educated Young Man Educated Man

Author:Booker T. Washington

“There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.”

Greater Errors Prosperity

Author:Leonard Read