Sophocles Quotes about Evil

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

The end excuses any evil.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

Evil gains work their punishment.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

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.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

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.

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.

Evil counsel travels fast.

The curse of ignorance is that man without being good or evil is nevertheless satisfied with himself

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.