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«Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.»
Author: Alain Rene Lesage | About: Conceit, Pride, Sin | Keywords: conceit, conceits, Pride and
«Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world»
«Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies»
«Repentance for past crimes is just and easy; but sin-no-more's a task too hard for mortals»
«Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.»
«Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales»
«Repentance is but want of power to sin.»
«O God, don't allow a sinner to do good to me as my mind may wish to love him»
Author: Muhammad (Religious leader) | About: Sin | Keywords: allow, do good, sinner
«Pleasure is the bait of sin»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Pleasure, Sin | Keywords: bait, baited, baiting, baits
«Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs»
Author: Seneca | About: Sin | Keywords: backs, sins

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