“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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Jacopo Sannazaro4
Italian writer 1458–1530Related quotes
“…since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.”
Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) English clergyman
"Holy Living" (1650) ch. 2, section 6. "Of Contentedness in all Estates".
“In politics evils should be remedied not revenged.”
Napoleon III (1808–1873) French emperor, president, and member of the House of Bonaparte
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
“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“The evils of society cannot be remedied by acts of parliament.”
Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) British writer
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.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) British writer
Source: Travels in the North of Germany (1820), p. 165, Vol. 1
Kalki Krishnamurthy (1899–1954) writer
"The Poison Cure", as translated by Gowri Ramnarayan in Kalki : Selected Stories (1999)
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
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.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Innovations
Essays (1625)