Plato Quotes

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.

... a moral skunk .... [who has] debauched America ...

The gentleman is guilty of every crime that does not require courage.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

The priests, either from indulgence or carelessness, have allowed the wicked to give loose reins to their lusts

When the religion is subjected to restriction, evil, crime, corruption and pornography become spread everywhere

Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.

Nothing is easier than sinning.

He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.

Sin is in, and so we begin.

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

Sin will pluck on sin.

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.