Sophocles Evil Quotations

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

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

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

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

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

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

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

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

Evil gains work their punishment.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Evil counsel travels fast.

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.

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.

Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

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

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.

The end excuses any evil.

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

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

It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.

Ill-gotten gains work evil.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

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