Edward Dahlberg Sage Quotations

Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.

I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks.