Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
– Baltasar Gracin
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- Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. – Baltasar Gracin
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- Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted. – Baltasar Gracin
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- Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense – Baltasar Gracin
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- Best to live and love by the maxim that ‘silence in the face of evil is evil itself’, but when it’s evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself. – Criss Jami
- Evil is appealing, evil is attractive, evil is stylish. However, evil is still evil and it deserves to be treated just like that. – Lakshya Bharadwaj
- If we contest with a lesser opponent, we reduce ourselves, and in the process wind up being lesser accomplished. – Sandeep Sahajpal
- It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good. – Margaret Mead
- Knock on the sky’s door, and stars will open it; knock on the universe’s door, and love will open it. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The door of opportunity is always open, but nobody bothers to push the door open. They just get tired out by knocking and then they leave. – Debasish Mridha
- Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil but then also do no evil. – Amit Abraham
- The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins. – Thomas Jefferson
- She’s had a long life of experience in noticing evil, fancying evil, suspecting evil and going forth to do battle with evil. – Agatha Christie
- When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil? – Nick Joaqun
- This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open. – Victor Hugo
- If you open your mind more than you open your mouth, you will open your world more than you open your doubt. – Robert J Braathe
- [On doors of opportunity] If that door doesnt open, Dont worry. It was probably best you got locked out than be locked in. Move on the next door. – Janna Cachola
- What if the door you love is locked and cannot be open? The answer is very simple: Find another door! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- When you are searching for love, love is standing just outside the door. Just open the door and welcome the love. – Debasish Mridha
- The door of opportunity is always open, but you have to find the door to enter. – Debasish Mridha
- You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut the door behind him and throw away the keys. – Jenim Dibie
- If one door is closed, find another open door. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- When Fortune knocks, open the door,’ they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut? – Idries Shah
- In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don’t serve them tea. – Shunryu Suzuki
- It’s useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same. – Anthony Liccione
- I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky. – Jandy Nelson
- Don’t be discouraged. When one door closes, you can find alternative open door. – Lailah Gifty Akita