Look for the causes of the evil from which you suffer in yourself. Sometimes this evil is the direct consequence of your activity; Sometimes it happens after a lengthy period of transformation of an evil which you committed long ago. But the source is always in you, and salvation from it lies in changes in your actions, your way of life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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What has this unfeeling age of ours left untried, what wickedness has it shunned?
~ Horace
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An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
~ Quintilian
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Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; As it grows older it becomes stronger.
~ Cicero
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