Sophocles Quotes About Evil
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Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.
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All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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The end excuses any evil.
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Evil gains work their punishment.
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A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good
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There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
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The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself
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Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.
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Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.
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Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
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There is no greater evil than anarchy.
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It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
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Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
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To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.
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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
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Ill-gotten gains work evil.
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No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.
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Evil counsel travels fast.
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To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
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Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.
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We should not speak of one that prospers well As happy, till his life have run its course, And reached its goal. An evil spirit's gift In shortest time has oft laid low the state Of one full rich in great prosperity, When the change comes, and so the Gods appoint.
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
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No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.
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