
“the unpunished crime is never regretted. We weep over the consequence, not over the fault.”
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
Not a Kerouac quote, but by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), the German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile: http://www.quotes.net/quote/58450
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“the unpunished crime is never regretted. We weep over the consequence, not over the fault.”
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
Memoirs of Fouché. Commonly quoted, "It is worse than a crime,—it is a blunder", and attributed to Talleyrand; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
Vol. 3, Pg. 268, Translated by W.P. Dickson
The History of Rome - Volume 3
"The Best of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the Clown Prince of Russian Politics" in VICE https://www.vice.com/en/article/xd5q47/the-best-of-vladimir-zhirinovsky-russias-craziest-politician
“His only fault is that he has no fault.”
Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.
Letter 26, 1.
Letters, Book IX
“Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one’s self.”
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 82.
“I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault, and I have no faults.”
Susie Shellenberger (2005) The One Year Devos for Teens 2, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., ISBN 1414301812, p. 357.
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