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• This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Evil, Secret, Passionate

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.315, Cambridge University Press

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• We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty

  Gordon Clark

  Wicked, Guilt, Sin

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• Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she cannot get, she seeks to obtain through lying and diabolical deceptions. And so, to put it briefly, one must be on one's guard with every woman, as if she were a poisonous snake and the horned devil. ... Thus in evil and perverse doings woman is cleverer, that is, slyer, than man. Her feelings drive woman toward every evil, just as reason impels man toward all good.

  Albertus Magnus

  Nature, Clever, Women

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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.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Two, Hungry

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• Wickedness is nourished by lust.

  Aristotle

  Lust

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• Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Country, Names, Numbers

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• God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Mad, Wicked

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.259

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• It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Hurt, Heart

  Following the Equator ch. 45, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Kindness, Wicked

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• Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

  Thomas Paine

  Government, Common Sense, Vices

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.15, Penguin

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• Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Sad, Religious

  Pensees no. 894 (1670 ed.)

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• Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.

  Isaac Watts

  Lying, Wicked, Way

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• Depend on it, that from every condition of distress or evil there is a great reaction, and the greater the evil or distress, the greater the reaction. If we do not get a reaction quick, we will get it long when it does come.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Evil, Reactions, Distress

  "A Picture and a Criticism of Life: New Letters".

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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.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Water, Stains, Can Not

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• It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Indulge In, Cowardice

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• While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Years, Space

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.368, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds of evil do no harm, and does not refrain from them. Hence, his wickedness becomes so great that it cannot be concealed, and his guilt so great that it cannot be pardoned.

  Confucius

  Men, Thinking, Small Acts

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• The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

  Plutarch

  Omission, Evil

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• As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Uniting, Goodness, Creator

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• Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.

  Plato

  Evil, Wicked, Turns

  Plato (2016). “Laws”, p.424, Xist Publishing

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• We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.

  Plato

  Ignorance, Past, Men

  Plato (1952). “Plato's Statesman”

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• I have been disappointed in all my expectations of Australia, except as to its wickedness; for it is far more wicked than I have conceived it possible for any place to be, or than it is possible for me to describe to you in England.

  Henry Parkes

  Australia, Expectations, Wicked

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• Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!

  Statius

  Cowardly

  "Thebais". Book by Statius, II, 489,

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• There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Intention

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• Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Mean, Men, Light

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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