Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

—Hesiod

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

—Hesiod

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

—Hesiod

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

—Hesiod

He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.

—Hesiod

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

—Gloria Steinem

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

—Evelyn Underhill

I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

—Euripides

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

—Edmund Burke