Michel de Montaigne: The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new a — Michel de Montaigne

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

Source: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 3.0). Quotations may be subject to their authors' rights and may be shown in translation.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. — Michel de Montaigne
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both — Michel de Montaigne
Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill gene — Michel de Montaigne
Confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God — Michel de Montaigne
Although a fool may show you sympathy At the end he will wound you with his foll — Rumi
When you see some evil you proceed to immediate action, you make an immediate at — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to mu — George Bernard Shaw
It is an unfailing maxim, that if policy enjoins an act of violence, its executi — Friedrich Schiller
Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginn — Leonardo da Vinci
L'homme doit être content, dit-on; mais de quoi? — Voltaire
The one loves to do good, the other to do harm; the one to help even strangers, — Seneca
The word is the excuse of thought. — Jules Renard