If you try to cure evil with evilyou will add more pain to your fate.

Sophocles
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If you try to cure evil with evilyou will add more pain to your fate. In this quote, the speaker is trying to avoid a situation which may get them hurt in the end. If one wants to deal with evil, they should do so in a way that does not make it worse. Sometimes, people try to do good by making evil worse.

For instance, when they give in to the urge to beat someone up for no reason. They might think that beating someone up will make them stop hurting them when in reality, it only makes them want to do it more. This is also true when people start stealing things.

They know that they are doing something wrong but the act of stealing makes them feel good in some strange way they can’t explain.

Source: Ajax

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