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More proverbs about Challenge

• If you must have an evil, choose a little one. Small harms wisely accepted spare you from greater suffering later.
• That which is evil is soon learnt. Evil habits spread faster than good ones because humans naturally gravitate toward the ea…
• The evil wound is cured, but not the evil name. Damage to reputation proves harder to repair than physical harm, as public memory outlast…
• Of evil grain no good seed can come. Corrupt foundations yield only corrupt results; moral degradation cannot produce virtue.
• Of two evils choose the lesser. When facing unavoidable harm, select the option causing minimum damage rather than suffer…
• If a man once fall, all will tread on him. Misfortune invites exploitation; those already disadvantaged face renewed abuse from othe…