On Milton (1825)
“Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.”
Essays Volume II, Essay XIV: "Private Judgment" http://www.newmanreader.org/works/essays/volume2/private.html British Critic (July 1841).
My Religion / Light in My Darkness, Ch 6 (1927)
Context: Self-culture has been loudly and boastfully proclaimed as sufficient for all our ideals of perfection. But if we listen to the best men and women everywhere … they will say that science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.
“Poison cures in certain contingencies, and in those cases poison is not an evil thing.”
Le venin guerit en quelque rencontre, et, ce cas-là, le venin n'est pas mauvais.
Aristippe, ou De la cour (1658), Discours VI.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 139.
“everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure”
Source: Democracy in America
Quoted by George W. Stimpson in A Book About American Politics http://books.google.com/books?id=5eQ5AAAAMAAJ&q=%22One+of+the+greatest+delusions+in+the+world+is+the+hope+that+the+evils+of+the+world+can+be+cured+by+legislation%22&pg=PA342#v=onepage (1952)
Source: Das Ressentiment im Aufbau der Moralen (1912), L. Coser, trans. (1973), p. 51
“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
Maxim 598, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
