We must as second best… take the least of the evils.

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Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that...

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Evil brings men together.

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Hope is a waking dream.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

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Evil brings men together.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

—Joseph Stalin

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Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

—Terry Pratchett

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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

—Blaise Pascal

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History

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We must as second best...take the least of the evils.