It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Fighting evil with evil doesn't diminish it; rather, it increases the evil.

There is no one who is completely evil as to lack some goodness in him.