Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Quote by Baltasar Gracian

Topics: Evil Quotes

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

Know or listen to those who know.

Know or listen to those who know.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he...

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he...

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is...

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is...

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those...

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those...

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel,...

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel,...

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to...

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to...

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds...

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds...

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their...

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their...

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some...

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some...

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.