It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate.
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.
God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.