“There is no evil in the world without a remedy.”
Ecloga Octava; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Evil".
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Al mondo mal non e senza rimedio.
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Jacopo Sannazaro 4
Italian writer 1458–1530Related quotes
“…since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.”
"Holy Living" (1650) ch. 2, section 6. "Of Contentedness in all Estates".
“In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.”
Napoléon III, Des Idées napoléoniennes, edited by Henri Colburn, London (1839), chapter 3, p. 39: En politique il faut guérir les maux, jamais les venger.
Translated by James A. Dorr, in: Napoleonic Ideas, Appleton & Co, New York (1859), p. 41
“The evils of society cannot be remedied by acts of parliament.”
Source: Travels in the North of Germany (1820), p. 98, Vol. 2
“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.”
Source: Travels in the North of Germany (1820), p. 165, Vol. 1
"The Poison Cure", as translated by Gowri Ramnarayan in Kalki : Selected Stories (1999)
Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 215
“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”
Of Innovations
Essays (1625)