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Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty!
Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!
[Lat., O caeca nocentum read more
Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty!
Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!
[Lat., O caeca nocentum consilia!
O semper timidum scelus!]
Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any
waters.
[Lat., Animi labes nec read more
Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any
waters.
[Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis
elui potest.]
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the read more
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as read more
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain!
The creature's at his dirty work again.
Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain!
The creature's at his dirty work again.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two
rascals can be ten times as vicious read more
Two starving men cannot be twice as hungry as one; but two
rascals can be ten times as vicious as one.