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Virtue/Decadence

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

-- Woody Allen

My good intentions are completely lethal.

-- Margaret Atwood

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

-- G. K. Chesterton

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

-- Alexandre Dumas pere

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

-- Elbert Hubbard

I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.

-- Samuel Johnson

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

-- Abraham Lincoln

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

-- W. Somerset Maugham

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