“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.”
Crime and Punishment (1866)
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“The scoundrel has his good qualities, and the good man his weaknesses.”
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos book Les Liaisons dangereuses
Le scélérat a ses vertus, comme l'honnête homme a ses faiblesses. <br class="br">Letter 32: Madame de Volanges to Madame la Présidente Tourvel. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_32 <br class="br">Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
“My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 5
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
Source: On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos (1994)
Context: A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator
Source: Letters, p. 250
“It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
April 9, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
“I've got to grow up. For me it means everything…”
Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
