“Evil is thou', and the worst evil is thou', which thou knowest it not.”
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) poet
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 96
Original: A volte, il male peggiore indossa l'amore.
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“Evil is thou', and the worst evil is thou', which thou knowest it not.”
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) poet
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 96
“The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Preface
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
“294. A man's discontent is his worst evill.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
Kadda Sheekoff (1993) Haitian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur
Source: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm11318964/quotes?ref_=m_nm_trv_trv
“That worst evil of long dictatorships: the loss of all political experience.”
James Cameron (journalist) (1911–1985) British journalist
The News Chronicle, March 3, 1954.
“In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
... die Hoffnung: sie ist in Wahrheit das übelste der Übel, weil sie die Qual der Menschen verlängert.
I.71
Variant: Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Source: Human, All Too Human (1878)
“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”
Electra, 1007.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)