Sayings and proverbs about good and evil

Proverbs about goodness

Do not boast about silver, but about good things.
Kind words are better than soft pie.
Peace builds, but war destroys.
No evil leads to good.
Life is given for good deeds.
There is no good without a silver lining.
Good - they change for bad.
If you don’t understand good, don’t do bad.
Honor the good, but do not spare the evil.
A good deed lives for two centuries.
It’s good to grow, or crawl through holes.
Good deeds live on even after death.
To follow good is to climb a mountain; to follow evil is to slide into an abyss.
Don't do to others what you don't want to do to yourself.
A warm word warms you even in the cold.
Everything is good, but not everything is good.
Everyone is kind, but not everyone is kind.
If you wish good, do good.
Encourage good and condemn evil.
Beauty is for a while, kindness is forever.
A good deed does not go without reward.
A good seed is a good sunrise.
Kind words are more valuable than wealth.
To be kind is to be known as kind.
For good, expect good, for bad, bad.
And good comes at worst.
And the dog remembers the good old times.
Learn good things - bad things will not come to mind.
To a kind greeting there is a kind response.
A kind word is more powerful than a club.
Good feelings are neighbors of love.
Virtue does not harm the good.
Kindness without reason is empty.
Honor the good, but do not spare the evil.
Doing good things means making yourself happy.
And the dog remembers who feeds it.
They do not seek good from goodness, horses do not roam from oats.
A good deed does not drown in water.
A kind word is in pearls.
Good news will add honor.
Good deeds live on even after death.

Proverbs about words and language.

Speech is made beautiful by listening. Talk less, hear more. You can't listen to all the speeches. Stupid speeches are like dust in the wind. They talk about Thomas, and he talks about Yerema. As is the speech, so is the attitude. Briefly and clearly. The word is not a sparrow: if it flies out, you won’t catch it. The word is silver, silence is gold. Words are good if they are short. Where words are rare, they have weight.

Don't always say what you know, But always know what you say.

Talk little, listen a lot, and think even more.

Think first, then say. With a kind word you can melt a stone. An unkind word burns more painfully than fire. Don't believe every rumor. I thought for a long time, but said it well.

The day flies by until the evening, But there is nothing to listen to.

If you don’t give a word, be strong, And if you give it, hold on.

Saving your presence. Silent means consent.

It's better not to finish than to negotiate.

Babbles like a magpie. He is silent as if he had filled his mouth with water.

A sharp tongue is a gift, And a long tongue is a punishment.

The tongue is long, the thoughts are short. The tongue of the needle is sharper. Language will take you to Kyiv.

My tongue is my enemy: It prowls before the mind, seeking trouble.

The tongue chatters, but the head answers. It pours from empty to empty. It is better to stumble with your foot than with your tongue.

There is honey on the tongue, and ice on the heart.

Speeches are like honey, but deeds are like wormwood.

He speaks eloquently, but there is nothing to listen to.

A tongue without bones: it babbles whatever it wants.

Meli Emelya, your week The earth is full of rumors. A secret for the whole world. You can't put a scarf over someone else's mouth.

Use your tongue to say whatever you want, but don’t give free rein to your hands.

Eat the mushroom pie, and keep your mouth shut.

Proverbs about evil

Evil cannot lie quietly.
The evil one cries from envy, and the good one from joy.
To love evil is to destroy yourself.
The dashing man has a lot of strength, but he has no will.
It’s bad for someone who doesn’t do good to anyone.
You don't teach a dog with a stick.
Someone else's grief is double joy.
Misfortune never comes alone.
Trouble will give birth to money.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
From love to hate one step.
Just think - grief; but if you change your mind, it’s the will of the Lord.
It’s hard for those who remember evil.
Learn good things, and bad things will come on their own.
If you spend an hour in goodness, you will forget all your grief.
Where there is laughter, there are tears.
Maybe, somehow, it won’t be any good.
Trouble will torture you, trouble will also teach you.
The good is that they are looking for treasure, but the bad is at hand.
It is not possible for a good tree to bear bad fruit.
After grief comes joy.
The good will remain silent, the bad will speak.
It’s good to grow, or crawl through holes.
For good, expect good, for bad, bad.
Know who you are doing good to.
And in the dashing there is virtue.

Aphorisms and quotes

Statements and quotes about evil by famous philosophers and thinkers.

He who does not punish evil contributes to its accomplishment. author: Leonardo da Vinci

When what is evil now disappears, what is evil tomorrow will immediately appear. author: Fazil Iskander

Where there is no difference between happiness and unhappiness, between joy and sorrow, there is no difference between good and evil. Good is an affirmation, evil is a denial of the desire for happiness. author: Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Quotes about evil by Leo Tolstoy

No violent reform will correct evil as long as people remain as they are, and therefore we can expect the correction of evil not from changing the form of our life, but only from the spread of kindness and rationality.

In an immoral society, all inventions that increase man’s power over nature are not only not good, but undoubted and obvious evil.

If you ask why evil? I answer with the question: why life? Evil so that there is life. Life manifests itself in liberation from evil.

Anger, like love, is not a chemical substance, but an organic one, like yeast - leaven. A tiny portion leavens everything.

Quotes about evil by Leo Tolstoy

Don't be afraid of ignorance, be afraid of false knowledge. All the evil in the world comes from him. author: Lev Tolstoy

An angry person is always reckless, just as a reckless person is always angry. These are two paired abilities, and deprivation of one paralyzes the other. author: Shelgunov Nikolay Vasilievich

Anger is stupidity. author: Maxim Gorky

Evil begets evil. author: Mikhail Lermontov

Very little evil would happen in the world if it were impossible to do evil under the guise of good. author: Maria Ebner-Eschenbach

As long as ignorance lasts, man finds no means against evil. author: Francis Bacon

So much evil is done in the world in the name of brotherhood that if I had a brother, I would call him cousin. author: Benjamin Disraeli

We do evil with the greatest zeal when we are prompted to do so by a clear conscience, but seduced by error. by Edwards Tryon

The good and evil we do to others often reflects back on ourselves. author: Henry Fielding

Evil is the good we see through myopia.

Is it permissible to eradicate villainy by killing villains? But this means multiplying their number.

With what ease and complacency does a person commit evil when he believes that he is doing a good deed! author: Blaise Pascal

Secrecy is terrible in evil. In goodness, the desire to be visible is terrible. The harm caused by visible evil is superficial, but the harm caused by hidden evil is deep.

When, having done evil, a person is afraid that people will find out about it, he can still find a path to good.

You cannot wish harm on another and you cannot help but want to protect another from harm. This is what protects us from soullessness. Author: Hong Zicheng

Sayings, aphorisms and quotes about the evil of famous people in Latin with translation.

Subtexta malis bona sunt. Good and evil are connected to each other. author: Maniliy

Tu ne cede malis, sed contr(a) audentior ito. Do not put up with evil, but go boldly against it. author: Virgil

Male merenti par erit. Those who do wrong are rewarded according to their deserts. Evil is answered with evil.

Malo bene facere tantund(em) est periculum quantum bono male facere. It is just as dangerous for an evil person to do good as for a good person to do evil.

Malo si quid bene facias, benefici(um) interit; Bono si quid male facias, aetat(em) expetit. If you do good to an evil person, it is lost; And if you do evil to a good person, it remains for life.

Nota mala res optima est. The familiar evil is the least evil. author: Plautus

Omne malum ex urbe. All evil comes from the city. author: Seneca

Gravius est malum omne, amoeno quod sub aspectu latet. The invisible evil is most alarming.

Qui obesse non vult, cum potest, prodest tibi. Not doing evil is a good deed. author: Publilius Syrus

Ex malis eligere minima oportet. You have to choose the least of the evils. Wed: Choose the lesser of two evils.

Ne sit sane summum malum dolor; malum certe est. Let pain not be the highest evil; but in any case, she is evil.

Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur. Any evil is easy to nip in the bud.

Summum malum est dolor. The greatest evil is suffering. author: Cicero

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Proverbs and sayings about good people

For the evil - death, and for the good - Sunday.
The world is not without good people.
A good man is put in a red corner.
Good is good everywhere.
Biscuit is good for the good, but meat is of no use to the evil.
Helping a good person is not a loss.
To be kind is to be known as kind.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Live kinder, you will be nicer to everyone.
The world is not without good people.
If your mother doesn’t instruct you, good people will teach you.
Don't sing a bad song in front of good people.
Not to live with money, but with kind people.
Neither in the feast, nor in the world, nor in good people.
Kind people are the most valuable thing.
Good people die, but their deeds live on.
Do good to others - you yourself will be without trouble.
The good teach good, and the evil teach evil.
If you do good, you will amuse yourself.
For good people there is a forest of hands.
Good news is expected from good guests.
We accept bread and salt from good people.
Rye and wheat will be born every year, but a kind person will always come in handy.
Nothing escapes good hands.
A thread from the world - a naked shirt.
A kind person takes someone else's illness to heart.
The evil one cries from envy, and the good one from joy.
Who loves good deeds, life is sweet to him.
Good and glory to the good Savva.
Rusks are good for the good, but meat is of no use to the evil.

Proverbs of the peoples of the world about language

The tongue is quicker than a saber. (Turkm)

The tongue can do a lot of things: it can either lift your mood or ruin things. (muzzle) The tongue is boneless, but it breaks bones. (Chuvash) The tongue is not a dagger, but it hurts and cannot be healed. (darg, lezg, tabasaransk) The tongue is sharper than a sword. (Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Tatar, Uzb, Mord, Turkm) Even cobblestones crack from the human tongue. (Kalmyk) The tongue destroys stones. (osset) The tongue will take you to the ends of the earth. (Komi) Language builds and destroys the world. (Arm) The wound heals from a checker, the wound heals from a bullet, but a wound inflicted with the tongue does not heal. (Bashkir, Lezg) The tongue hurts more than a sword. (Azerbian) You can earn both glory and shame with your tongue. (cargo) The gun killed one, and the tongue killed nine. (Ingush) Language is the key to the heart. (Taj, Uzbek) The saber cut down one, and the tongue cut down an army. (Arm) He who speaks the language saves his head. (Tatar) If you forget your native language, you will forget your own mother. (udm)

Proverbs and sayings about evil people

Evil Natalya's people are all crooks.
Heart with pepper, soul with garlic.
The evil one and the evil one know each other and refer to each other.
As he looks at the forest, the forest withers.
Where you set your foot, grass does not grow.
Looks like he swallowed exactly seven of them and choked on the eighth.
If it weren’t for the frost on the nettle, it would have stung all the people.
It stings like nettles and stings like a hedgehog.
And the soul is there: skin and bones, and even those turned yellow with anger.
The evil one fought with the evil one, but both fell into a pit.
He looks like hell at the priest.
A good person cries with joy, and an evil one with envy.
His penny will burn a beggar’s hand.
The smart man runs away from evil, but the stupid one catches up with him.
Looks like a snake from inside his bosom.
An angry person is like coal: if it doesn’t burn, it blackens.
Darkness does not like light, evil does not tolerate good.
An evil man is more evil than a wolf.
An evil person always thinks evil.
An evil person flatters one's eyes, but blasphemes one's eyes.
To a good man the whole world is his home, to an evil man his home is also his own.
What an evil person wants is for the other to die.
The village was good, but its glory was bad.

Quotes about slander

When a woman no longer hopes to become the subject of slander, she indulges in it herself.

Slander and ridicule are what are in constant demand among the public.

Slander, even without evidence, leaves almost eternal traces.

Cut off Gossip's head - the tongue lives.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I don’t understand why engage in slander. If you want to annoy someone, it is enough to tell some truth about him.

Forgive those who speak ill of you, but not those who tell you about it.

To stop slander, do not pay attention.

If everyone knew that everyone was talking about everyone, then everyone would not talk to everyone.

Anyone who throws dirt loses ground under his feet.

People are happy to listen to things that they themselves would not like to say.

Women with small heads are more poisonous.

Curiosity certainly accompanies slander.

To slander, and sharply at the same time, is very pleasant, my dear. After all, it was said by the poet: Slander warms us in winter and refreshes us in hot summer.

Slander, slander - something will remain.

Do you want to know what your friends say about you? Listen to what they say about people who are better than you.

Maria Ebner Eschenbach

Half of the people find pleasure in slandering, and the other half in believing the slander.

Oh! Evil tongues are worse than a gun.

Alexander Sergeevich Griboyedov

Acquaintances are people who, just in case, call you a fool. Good friends can already tell you a bad joke about you. Friends are those who really know some real nasty things about you.

A man’s tongue is small, And how many lives has he broken, Showing his low temperament, - The culprit of gossip, squabbles, discord!

If you tell something bad about anyone, they will certainly believe you.

A person would prefer to be told a hundred lies about him than one unpleasant truth.

In slander, as in theft, the victim is considered to blame.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

I don’t care what they say about me behind my back as long as they tell lies about me.

He who despises slander deserves it most of all.

George Saville Halifax

About those who are absent - only the truth.

Do not slander in vain, So as not to ask for forgiveness from your conscience.

Do not speak evil of your neighbor, lest you hear something that you yourself will not rejoice at.

You need to make it a rule to never spread someone else’s slander until you check how fair it is. True, then you will have to shut up forever.

People are no longer slandering me; apparently, I’m getting old.

The word is not a sparrow, if you take a shit, you won’t be able to wash it off.

The one who tells you about other people's shortcomings tells others about yours.

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