Wicked Quote by Sallust Download Open image “By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.” — Sallust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Wicked
It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community. — Aeschines Copy Share Image
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers — Bible Copy Share Image
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of… — Sallust Copy Share Image
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque… — Sallust Copy Share Image
It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the… — Sallust Copy Share Image
It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for those who… — Sallust Copy Share Image
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed… — Sallust Copy Share Image
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face. — Thomas Watson Copy Share Image
...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
As an actor, it was great to work with Harry Lloyd because he's wicked smart, and he is very kind. — Betty Gabriel Copy Share Image
IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands. — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to… — Marah Ellis Ryan Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a divine punishment or the hope of a divine reward.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share