Anthony Trollope on good and evil

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke1729–1797

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal1623–1662

• Anti-Religion

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein1879–1955