“No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.”

— Juvenal, book Satires

II, line 83.
Compare: "There is a method in man’s wickedness, — It grows up by degrees
Beaumont and Fletcher, A King and No King, Act v, scene 4.
Satires, Satire II

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