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Evil Quotes by Sophocles
- Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.
- 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.
- Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.
- A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good
- Laziness is the mother of all evils.
- Ill-gotten gains work evil.
- Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
- There is no greater evil than anarchy.
- Evil counsel travels fast.
- Evil gains work their punishment.
- No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
- It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.
- Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.
- All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.
- There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
- To live without evil belongs only to the gods.
- For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
- If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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