“Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.”
Sixth Day, Novel LX (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)
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The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875)
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Harijan (20 October 1946); as quoted in The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts (1985)
1940s

“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
Source: Les Misérables

“The worst sin any of us can commit is not committing any sin.”
Original: Il peccato peggiore che ognuno di noi possa commettere è non commettere alcun peccato.
Source: prevale.net