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The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever. (Quote by - Plutarch)

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. (Quote by - Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont)

Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction. (Quote by - John Tillotson)

Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two rascals can be ten times as vicious as one. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Wickedness is its own punishment. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)

Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always! (Quote by - Statius)

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. (Quote by - Herman Melville )

God bears with the wicked, but not forever. (Quote by - Miguel de Cervantes)

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. (Quote by - A. J. P. Taylor)

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practiced perfidy grow faithless to each other. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. (Quote by - Bob Riley)

Wickedness resides in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated. (Quote by - Cicero)

Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)

Even as I have seen, they that plough iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. (Quote by - Bible)

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason. (Quote by - Livy)

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. (Quote by - John Dryden)

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)

Few are so wicked as to take delight in crimes unprofitable. (Quote by - John Dryden)

Peace and wickedness are far asunder. (Quote by - Benjamin Stillingfleet)

My soul has been so vexed within me for the wickedness of some of this Colony that I have been strongly tempted to leave it altogether. (Quote by - Samuel Marsden)

All wickedness is but little to the wickedness of a woman. (Quote by - Bible)

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch. (Quote by - Jennifer Beals)

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed. (Quote by - Camilla P. Bowles)

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