Socrates Quotes

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

I feel like every time you think you really understand how deep the seductive power of evil is, it always proves to be one step deeper than you thought possible.

When you're surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually.

In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Evil changes everybody!