The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
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The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.
We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.
Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.
People do not read stupidities with impunity.
The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.
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