It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

—Mary Renault

About Mary Renault

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Eileen Mary Challans (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983), known by her pen name Mary Renault (), was a British writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece.

More quotations tagged with “evil”

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Evil to him who evil thinks.
(Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense)

—King Edward the Third

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

—Joseph Conrad

A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

—John Stuart Mill

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

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