
“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”
D'uomo è il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono
Scerne il dolor del fallo.
Rosmunda, III, 1; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 665.
D'uomo è il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono Scerne il dolor del fallo.
“The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”
“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
1910s
Source: Quoting Plato, as translated by Abraham Arden Brill, "The Interpretation of Dreams" https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Freud_-_The_interpretation_of_dreams.djvu/511 (1913 edition), p.493
On Dramatic Poetry (1758)
“I am shocked by this wicked crime.”
Reaction to the assassination of Gandhi. Ottawa Citizen, Jan. 27, 1948. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19480127&id=n_4uAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GNwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1578,6285092&hl=en
Post-war years (1945–1955)
“Blind counsels of the wicked! Crime cowardly ever!”
O caeca nocentum
consilia! o semper timidum scelus!
Source: Thebaid, Book II, Line 489
Justice in War-Time (1916), p. 70
1910s
“To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.”
Les feuilles d'automne (1831)
Variant: To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
Source: Les Misérables
“To err is human, to purr is feline.”
Source: The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said