"The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level."
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"In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve."
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"Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]"
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"There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness."
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"It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death."
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"Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's."
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"We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity."
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"The world loves a spice of wickedness."
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"Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper."
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"For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism."
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"Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one."
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"Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord."
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"Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor."
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"Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is."
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"The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness."
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"How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not."
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"Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness."
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"Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly."
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"And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence."
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"It is no sin to be tempted; the wickedness lies in being overcome."
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