Pythagoras Quote

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France

• Nature
• Evil

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Euripides

• Friendship
• Evil

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

Anais Nin

• World
• Woman

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.

Gustave Flaubert

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Plato

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

Heinrich Heine

• Evil

A good woman inspires a man, a brilliant woman interests him, a beautiful woman fascinates him, but a sympathetic woman gets him.

Helen Rowland

• Woman

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

• Man

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Aeschylus

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Paul Klee

• Beauty

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

Giacomo Casanova

• Misfortune
• Morality

The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

Paul Gauguin

• Virtue

Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, The source of evil one, and one of good; From thence the cup of mortal man he fills, Blessings to these, to those distributes ills; To most he mingles both.

Homer

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Niccolo Machiavelli

• Virtue

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

John Milton

The man who would be a painter must be capable of losing himself in viewing the rich consonance of red and green, in watching the diminution of light as it is transformed into darkness, and in detecting the subtle hues of silks and satins, which according to their breaks, recesses and depths of fold, assume opaline tints, vague luminous gleams and imperceptible shades of blue.

Hippolyte Taine

A hard man is good to find.

Mae West

• Man

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

Barbra Streisand

• Woman
• Dreams