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crimes
«When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.»
«When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Love,
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
credit, crimes, virtues
«Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.»
«Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
be intimate, careful, conceal, confess, contempt, crime, crimes, discovery, Discovery of, forgiven, Friends Forever, implied, implies, implying, intimate, intimates, intimate with, intimating, pride, remembers, sillier, silliest, silly, weakness, weaknesses, wrongs
«We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
carry, carrying out, carry over, carry through, crimes, exile, exiled, exiles, fight, places, ravage, ravaged, ravages, task, The Exile, unleash, unleashed, unleashes, Unleashing
«The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.»
«We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor,»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Crime
| Keywords:
artifice, artifices, crimes, deceit, distinctions, endear, endeared, endearing, endears, gradual, of our own, palliate, palliated, palliating, self-deceit, shocked, wickedness