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Evil (051-075)

He that helps the evil hurts the good.
— English

He who has a good companion can bear any evil.
— Spanish

He who sows evil will harvest repentance.
— African (Morocco)

He that will no evil do, must do
nothing that belongs thereto.
— English

He who wishes evil to another man will suffer his own loss.
— Indian (Kashmiri)

He whose stomach is full increases deeds of evil.
— Hebrew

He who approves evil is guilty of it.
— Indian (Tamil)

He that hopes not for good fears not evil.
— English

He knows best what good is that has endured evil.
— English

Hide the evil; show the good.
— Chinese

Idleness is the mother of all evil.
— Greek

Idleness is the seed of all evil.
— Welsh

Evil once born can never die.
— English

If a man is evil, men fear him, but Heaven does not.
— Chinese

If the ear hears news of evil, the neck escapes being severed.
— African (Hausa)

In every evil there is something good.
— Russian

It is bad to do evil, but worse to boast of it.
— English

It is better to go hungry with a pure mind
than to eat well with an evil one.
— Chinese

It is evil running against a stone wall.
— English

It is easy to find evil but difficult to find goodness.
— Filipino

Kindness and evil are not forgotten.
— African (Hausa)

Many a good cow has an evil calf.
— English

Misfortune is the beginning of evil.
— Russian

No evil without its advantages.
— English

Of two evils choose the lesser,
of two women, the third.
— Hebrew

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