“Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse.”
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) French poet and critic
Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.
Canto I, l. 64
The Art of Poetry (1674)
“As evil waxes, the very men who stand for good will in their fear use ever worse means o’ fighting, and thereby give evil a free beachhead.”
Source: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 12 (p. 102)
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Book XXXVIII, line 327
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Post-Prime Ministerial
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