"The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins."
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"Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter."
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"If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin."
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"Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person."
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"All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free."
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"The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action."
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"For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm."
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"The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue."
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"Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it."
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"It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke."
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"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference."
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"Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven."
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"A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out."
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"Sin is essentially a departure from God."
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"Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure."
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"It is not a sin to be happy, it is not a virtue to be miserable."
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"To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin."
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"We are not punished for our sins, but by them."
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"But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time."
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"Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting."
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