Quotes with wickedness

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

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

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

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.