Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

Guilt is abscent when the act is justified.

Guilt is abscent when the act is justified.

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
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Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]

Those who guilt stains it equals.
[Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.]

Those who guilt stains it equals.
[Lat., Facinus quos inquinat aequat.]

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about

Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised,
And mine that I was proud on--mine so much
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But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised,
And mine that I was proud on--mine so much
That I myself was to myself not mine,
Valuing of her--why she, O, she is fall'n
Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,
And salt too little which may season give
To her foul tainted flesh!