“I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.”

In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.

To learn is to be young, however old.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Wrong must not win by technicalities.

For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Know not to revere human things too much.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.

If a man should wanton walk with crime, he shall find in death no great deliverance.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils – weariness, vice, and want.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

Don’t be evil- apparently people like it better than “Be good”.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.