Hesiod Evil Quotations

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher.

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.

If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.

There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.

An evil plan does mischief to the planner.

Evil can be got very easily and exists in quantity: the road to her is very smooth, and she lives near by. But between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard.