Euripides Evil Quotations

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.

There is no evil as terrible as a woman.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

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.

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

The gift of a bad man can bring no good.

Only a madman would give good for evil

Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words No undue credence: for I say that kings Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those Who live calm pious lives day after day All divinity Is built-up from our good and evil luck.

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.