He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

There is no shame in the accidents of chance, but only in the consequence of our own misdeeds.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains-absolutely.

No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.

A small demerit extinguishes a long service.

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Throughout our life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

As a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree, so the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all.