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"For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked."
"The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor."
"Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet."
"For never, never, wicked man was wise."
"Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good."
"It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless."
"It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all."
"Jehovah is guarding all those loving him, But all the wicked ones he will annihilate."
"Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh."
"Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries."
"I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins."
"We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal."
"You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie."
"Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!"
"The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell."
"If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself."
"Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult."
"The sun shines even on the wicked."
"What I lack in height, I make up for in wicked good hearing."
"The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition."
