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He who does evil to another, has done it to himself.

The mouth prays to Buddha, but the heart is full of evil.

The seed of all evil is laziness.

Repay evil with good, and hell will not claim you.

Night of the Saint Andrew

On the 30th of November, Romaian people is celebrating Saint Andrew, the spiritual patriarch of Romania.

The night before Saint Andrew's Eve is known as the night of the ghosts( strigoi), strigoi means in Romanian...

Cradled in a Manger meanly

Cradled in a manger, meanly,
Laid the Son of Man His head;
Sleeping His first earthly slumber
Where the oxen had been fed.
Happy were those shepherds listening
To the holy angel s word;
Happy they within...

The Race that Long in Darkness pined

The race that long in darkness pined,
Have seen a glorious Light;
The people dwell in day, who dwelt
In death s surrounding night.

To hail Thy rise, Thou better Sun,
The gathering nations come,...

Beware of he whose goodness you can't ask for for and whose evil you can't be protected from.

Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times, for a double crossing friend knows more evil.

No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.

To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long.

There is not the thickness of a sixpence between good and evil.

How many daily read the Bible, and yet pursue their course of evil.

Where there's money, there is the devil; but where there's none, a greater evil.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

To do things wrong with best intentions is better than acting to the letter of the law with evil intentions.

In my life of vanity i saw everything: a righteous man dying in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long after his evil deeds.

My enemy isn't the one who harms me, but the one who makes me evil.

The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.

A drunken man, when asleep, is better left alone. [Let a slumbering evil rest where it is. ]