False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Good and Evil Quotes
Shakespeare, Kurt Vonnegut, Eric Hoffer, Cicero and Seneca lead. Tolstoy, in The First Step (1892), says that to be good and lead a good life means to give others more than one takes from them. Eleanor Farjeon, in two books from the early 1920s, makes a better joke of it: it is no use crying over spilt evils, it is better to mop them up laughing.
The line about fighting monsters and gazing into the abyss is credited to Mark Twain and marked misattributed. The notes give a German text and a modern translation, which is the Nietzsche version. The “pass through this world but once” passage, credited to Stephen Grellet, is disputed, and a passage on living for something, credited to Thomas Chalmers, is flagged misattributed.
Most quoted on good and evil:
To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.
It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.
Fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it conscientiously.
But evil is wrought by want of thought,
As well as want of heart.