#evil

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #evils #gold #lamentation #less

No one who errs unwillingly is evil. ↗

— Sophocles

#evil #unwillingly #who

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

— Sophocles

#evil #fortune #greater #greater evil #men

There is no greater evil than anarchy. ↗

— Sophocles

#evil #greater #greater evil #than

To live without evil belongs only to the gods. ↗

— Sophocles

#evil #gods #live #only #without

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

— Sophocles

#dying #evils #gain #how #i

Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. ↗

— Robert Southey

#certain #effect #end #evil #good

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#degrees #devil #his #play #sword

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation. ↗

— John H. Speke

#africa #civilisation #describe #european #evil

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#conception #evil #form #free #good