“He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.”
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012)
“Who profits by a sin has done the sin.”
Medea, lines 500-501; (Medea)
Alternate translation: He who profits by crime commits it. (translator unknown).
Tragedies
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Cui prodest scelus, is fecit.
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Seneca the Younger 225
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
“Christianity has done a great deal for love by making it a sin.”
Anatole France
(1844–1924) French writer
Le christianisme a beaucoup fait pour l’amour en en faisant un péché.
Le Jardin d'Épicure http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Jardin_d%E2%80%99%C3%89picure [The Garden of Epicurus] (1894)
Variant translation: Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Winston S. Churchill
(1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Reported in James C. Humes, Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous (1978), p. 45, as a remark made in the House of Commons responding to a Laborite speech on the evils of free enterprise; reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
Disputed
Muhammad
(570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Biharul Anwar, Volume 96, Page 248
Shi'ite Hadith
“He who has not sinned lacks a stone.”
Ron English
(1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Who is allowed to sin, sins less.”
Cui peccare licet, peccat minus.
Book III, iv, 9
Amores (Love Affairs)
“Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.”
Thomas Aquinas
(1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church
Commentary on Romans, cap 14, I 3
“Thus by this gracious knowing we may see our sin profitably without despair.”
Julian of Norwich
(1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 78
John Updike
(1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
"Everybody says it. The church, the government. It's against Nature, to give up, you've got to keep moving. That's the thing about you. You're not moving. You don't want to be here, selling old man Springer's jalopies. You want to be out there, learning something." He gestures toward the west. "How to hang glide, or run a computer, or whatever."
Rabbit is Rich (1981)