This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
Conversation | Disease | Evil | People | Philosophy | Silence |
Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good... for every thing you gain, you lose something.
Robert Kennedy, fully Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy
What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
To do… injustice to another is a far greater evil for the doer of the injustice than it is for the victim.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
T. S. Eliot, fully Thomas Sterns Eliot
The perception of Good and Evil - whatever choice we may make - is the first requisite of spiritual life.
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Fanaticism is idolatry; and it has the moral evil of idolatry in it; that is, a fanatic worships something which is the creation of his own desire, and thus even his self-devotion in support of it is only an apparent or his mind, which he least values, offer sacrifice to that which he most values.
Desire | Devotion | Evil | Fanaticism | Mind | Sacrifice | Self |
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Accident | Day | Death | Evil | Judgment | Justice | Life | Life | Men |
Men’s hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against the evil thing only.