“ In medicine sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission are venial. ”
- Theodore Tronchin- Copy
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“ Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. ”
- William Congreve- Copy
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“ There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. ”
- Samuel Richardson- Copy
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“ God does not intend people, and does not like people, to be too good. He likes them neither too good nor too bad, but a little too bad is more venial with him than a little too good. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
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“ Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty — excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable — should persist after the beauty was gone. ”
- Mary Arnim- Copy
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“ There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. ”
- Robert Fripp- Copy
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“ In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable. ”
- Dale Turner- Copy
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“ The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape. ”
- Federico Garcia Lorca- Copy
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“ Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin. ”
- Johannes Tauler- Copy
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“ Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing is not excusable if, for instance, you are in a museum and you decide that a certain painting would look better in your house, and you simply grab the painting and take it there… ”
- Daniel Handler- Copy
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“ To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable, we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose-bush; we must train them, exactly and powerfully, here on the very spot. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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