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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.
[Lat., Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi
Displicet auctori. Prima est haec ultio, quod se
Judice nemo nocens absolvitur.]
Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Quotes , Source: Satires (XIII, 1)
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Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from
betraying guilt!
[Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Quotes , Source: Metamorphoses (II, 447)
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Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.
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Unknown
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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
Victor Hugo
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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be
not committed.
[Lat., In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, etiamsi ad id non
pervererint.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: De Officiis (III, 8)
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Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
Tryon Edwards
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However boldly their warm blood was spilt,
Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;
And this they knew and felt, at least the one,
The leader of the hand he had undone,--
Who, born for better things, had madly set
His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.
Unknown
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However boldly their warm blood was spilt,
Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;
And this they knew and felt, at least the one,
The leader of the hand he had undone,--
Who, born for better things, had madly set
His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.
Unknown
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Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal
consideration should stand in the way of performing a public
duty.
Ulysses Simpson Grant
Quotes , Source: indorsement of a letter relating to the Whiskey Ring
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What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house
on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this
world rests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Quotes , Source: The House of Seven Gables--The Flight of Two Owls
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How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast,
Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Irene (act IV, sc, 8)
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The gods
Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,
And must be yours, that guilty men escape not:
As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.
Ben Jonson
Quotes , Source: Catiline (act III, sc. 5)
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Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves.
[Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio
plus facunda.]
Titus Livy
Quotes , Source: Annales (XXVIII, 25)
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These false pretexts and varnished colours failing,
Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 901)
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Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of
guilt.
[Lat., Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius.]
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Quotes , Source: Mostellaria (act III, 1, 13)
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