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Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you sho...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't ...

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April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring...

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The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively ...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous execution...

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The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have affl...

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When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.

When a man's willing and eager God joins in.

When he speaks into your ear so thatno one can hear, he will say he is your slave, that he’s passed ...

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To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparab...

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In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust...

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They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the...

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Dean KoontzDark Rivers of the Heart

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently ...

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Friedrich NietzscheDaybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.

'Cause I's wicked - I is. I's mighty wicked anyhow I can't help it.

Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that...

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The world loves a spice of wickedness.

What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their tr...

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We all have flaws and mine is being wicked.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow i...

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The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered som...

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Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are ...

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I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicke...

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Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one whi...

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