#wick

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#always #find #good #people #surprised

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it. ↗

— Chanakya

#fly #man #mouth #poison #saturated

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

— John Jay Chapman

#contemplation #goodness #our #own #solely

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. ↗

— John Donne

#much #than #wicked #worse

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#every #experience #fruit #fully #garden

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. ↗

— Ovid

#burns #clean #lamp #oil #wick

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#evil #makes #passionate #refuse #rotten

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#certain #circumstances #deeds #demand #even

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#cowardly #defenseless #gossip #ignorant #instead

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. ↗

— Lucretius

#heights #men #religion #such #which