Diseased Quote by Sophocles Download Open image “All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.” — Sophocles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diseased
It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The real primary diseases of man are such defects as pride, cruelty, hate, self- love, ignorance, instability and greed; and each of these, if… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Society, that first of blessings, brings with it evils death only can cure. — Sophia Lee Copy Share Image
Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor. I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could reasonably be happy doing something else, by all means go at once and do something else. Acting or writing or directing in the theatre or television or screen… — Michael Shurtleff Copy Share
Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with its… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh. — John Ford Copy Share Image
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body… — David Hackworth Copy Share Image