Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!
Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.
Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.
There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.
Men still have to be governed by deception.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once.
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?