![Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/keep-what-you-have-got-the-known-evil-is-best-lat-habeas-ut-nactus-nota-mal.jpg)
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evil statesmen statesmanship
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. Charles Caleb Colton
evil choices goods
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
evil decision choices
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
evil growth rapids
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
evil giving decision
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.
evil unhappy ends
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning. Charles Dickens
evil hatred debt
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
evil wells decided
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. Charles Simmons
evil confusion people
We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from. Charles Stanley
contentment alive able
For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now. Alan Watts
contentment unhappy not-happy
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it. Alan Bennett
contentment wish littles
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. Charles Lamb
contentment digital needs
Digital piracy needs to be addressed. Without content protection, investment in content can't be supported. We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications equipment and software makers) help us, we will make it easier for you to distribute our content. Bob Iger
contentment rich poor
Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor. Benjamin Franklin
contentment cure discontent gets kinds loses second success
There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second. Gordon Graham
contentment lions paws
But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest. Billy Collins
contentment deeds ifs
If you would know contentment, let your deeds be few. Democritus
contentment dark horses ran silver smiles
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes. / Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment. Jack Bruce
known nonlinear terms
There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk. John Hull
known throughout true
Throughout the ages, they are known as wise, who weep, remembering the True One.
known
The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53 David Almond
known phenomena physicists quantum
With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics. Richard P. Feynman
known loves man opens platform speak spends time
My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy. Josh McDowell
known square
This will not be known as the Times Square of the West, ... Times Square will be known as the l.a. live of the East. Alex Padilla
known
Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown. Chris Crutcher
known people
If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited. Tom Stoppard
known putting shooting
Shooting my scenes, I hadn't really even known what I was putting in his medicine, Roger Bart