Walter Raleigh Quotes about Evil

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their

Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors, for they will strengthen thy imperfections, encourage thee in all evils, correct thee in nothing, but so shadow and paint thy follies and vices as thou shalt never, by their will, discover good from evil, or vice from virtue.

Walter Raleigh

Evil, Imperfection, Shadow

No one can take less pains than to hold his tongue. Hear much, and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and greatest evil that is done in the world.

Walter Raleigh

Pain, Evil, Silence

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

Walter Raleigh

Men, Evil, Occasions

Sir Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.95

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather incur peril than preservation; for who so laboreth to be sincerely perfect and good shall necessarily perish, living among men that are generally evil.

Walter Raleigh

Integrity, Men, Evil

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Walter Raleigh

Men, Hands, Evil

Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829). “Miscellaneous works”, p.124

All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Walter Raleigh

Wise, Men, Evil

Walter Raleigh Quotes about Evil

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