Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.


Hesiod

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the gains are nevertheless substantial.
JEFF SESSIONS
Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift, increases with travel and gains strengt...
VIRGIL OR VERGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO VERGIL)
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
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If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
EURIPIDES
The evil doers, the ignorant, the lowest persons who are attached to demonic nature, and whose intel...
BHAGAVAD GITA
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
HERODOTUS
There are no gains without pains.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbag...
NICK JOAQUĆ­N
We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN
We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The reall...
WILLIAM BOLITHO
Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil.
CHINESE PROVERB
She's had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth...
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere mo...
VIRGIL
These are solid looking gains year-over-year.
JEFF TILLERY
An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil,
because the pure spirit of peace can not d...
TOBA BETA
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
SOCRATES
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
PLATO
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.
MICHAEL VENTURA
To see evil and do nothing is evil.
JIM GENOVESE
We're very happy. Our kids are making great gains.
ANTONIO JIMENEZ
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
BIBLE
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on...
HANS BENDER
I think it could last as the gains abroad are strong.
CELSO SENISE
Investors are set to close out the year with good gains.
HANS KUNNEN
Which do you prefer? The PAINS and GAINS of PRAYING or the PAINS and PAINS of REGRET?
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.
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AYMAN ODEH
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HECTOR JIMENEZ
Peace & evil are next door neighbours,because peace is the forerunner of evil.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Gaming gains a loss.
JOHN BYROM
No pains, no gains
ENGLISH PROVERB
Light Gains heavy Purses.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
No gains without pains.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.
SHERYL SANDBERG
Gains in the market are fund-led. Trading in the region remains relatively strong with funds pursuin...
JACKSON WONG
The New York gains are nice, but a rebound of this scale is not enough to turn the bearish trend aro...
KUNIHIRO HATAE
an unusual treatment of one-time gains.
HOWARD SCHILIT
So. I should just give up now?" she asked mildly. "Just let him spiral down into madness until the N...
ROBIN HOBB
He who gains victory over other men is strong, but he who gains victory over himself is all powerful...
MARIE MUHAMMAD
Nobody wants to share in your PAINS, but they think they have a right to partake of your GAINS. Task...
BAYODE OJO
Half of the results of a good intentions are evil; half the results of an evil intention are good.
MARK TWAIN
Money is not evil, but its love promotes all kinds of evil.
SUNDAY ADELAJA
Do not accept an evil you can change.
E. LOCKHART
Despite those solid gains, improvement haven't come as far and fast as we would have liked, and the ...
LYNN OLSON
Do not talk evil of others; see only good in them.
ATHARVA VEDA
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT
So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are...
T.S. ELIOT
everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Oba...
GROVER NORQUIST
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ART HOGAN
If you think of evil things, you are likely to do evil things and that will never pay you a pesewa. ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Education is not a panacea. Education in the mind of evil man is evil sevenfold.
TROY J. GAINEY
Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosityin the hearts of the young.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB
The evil that men do leads after them, but the evil that women do surprises the devil himself.
THE INSPIRATIONIST
to wreck all the gains of the last few months.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM
Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil.
WILLIAM SAROYAN
Positive earnings surprises ... are key to any further gains for the overall market.
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BRADLEY WARREN
The market is simply digesting those gains,
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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powe...
LAO-TZU
He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powe...
LAO TZU
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
CLAUDIUS
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is n...
MAX LERNER
Evil witnesses are eyes and ears of men, if they have souls that do not understand their language.
HERACLITUS
There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
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There is no one who is completely evil as to lack some goodness in him.
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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty
SIMONE WEIL
Trivial losses often prove great gains.
UNKNOWN
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