“If pride is a sin… moral pride is the greatest sin.”
John Irving book The Cider House Rules
Source: The Cider House Rules
“The greatest sin, after the initial sin, is its publication.”
— Machado de Assis, book Quincas Borba
O maior pecado, depois do pecado, é a publicação do pecado.
Quincas Borba (1891) ch. 32; Clotilde Wilson (trans.) Philosopher or Dog? (New York: Noonday Press, 1954) p. 41.
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