“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.”
Le scélérat a ses vertus, comme l'honnête homme a ses faiblesses.
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
Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
“My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.”
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 5
Source: On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
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.
Source: Letters, p. 250
“It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.”
April 9, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything.”
