Sophocles Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• 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.

  Sophocles

  Mistake, Character, Pride

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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

  Sophocles

  Nurse, Evil, Soul

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

  Sophocles

  Men, Evil, Wish

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.33, Harvard University Press

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

  Sophocles

  Pain, Fate, Evil

  Sophocles, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro (2010). “The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays”, p.40, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

  Sophocles

  Uprising, Evil, Dying

• To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

  Sophocles

  Men, Kind Deeds, Deeds Done

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

  Sophocles

  Wish To Die, Evil, Wickedness

  "Electra". Play by Sophocles, Line 1007. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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

  Sophocles

  Men, Evil, Expectations

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

  Sophocles

  Evil, Pet, Want

  Electra 1007

• Laziness is the mother of all evils.

  Sophocles

  Mother, Work, Evil

• Ill-gotten gains work evil.

  Sophocles

  Evil, Gains, Ill

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

  Sophocles

  Mother, Men, Evil

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Sophocles”

• 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.

  Sophocles

  Errors, Evil, Common

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

  Sophocles

  Men, Evil, Wish

• No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

  Sophocles

  Marriage, Wise, Men

  Sophocles (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues”, p.411

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

  Sophocles

  Ignorance, Men, Evil

• There is no greater evil than anarchy.

  Sophocles

  Evil, Anarchy, Anarchism

  Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides (2016). “The Greek Plays: Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides”, p.301, Modern Library

• Surely there never was so evil a thing as money, which maketh cities into ruinous heaps, and banisheth men from their houses, and turneth their thoughts from good unto evil.

  Sophocles

  Money, Men, Cities

• Ignorance is a tough evil to conquer.

  Sophocles

  Ignorance, Evil, Tough

• Evil counsel travels fast.

  Sophocles

  Evil

• 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.

  Sophocles

  Running, Evil, Goal

  Sophocles, Edward Hayes PLUMPTRE (Dean of Wells.) (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre”, p.410

• Evil gains work their punishment.

  Sophocles

  Punishment, Evil, Gains

• No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

  Sophocles

  Evil

• Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.

  Sophocles

  Home, Men, Pay The Price

  Sophocles (2017). “Antigone”, p.10, Youcanprint

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

  Sophocles

  Men, Evil, Fortune

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