This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.
He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.
Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]
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