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“A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out”
Mark Twain
“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”
William Shakespeare
“All good things were at one time bad things; every original sin has developed into an original virtue.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Pleasure is the bait of sin”
Plato
“The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.”
Dwight L. Moody
“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer”
John Bunyan
“Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
Oscar Wilde
“It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Sin is whatever obscures the soul.”
Andre Gide