There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven.
God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.
A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
The sun also shines on the wicked.
— Seneca
It is safest to be moderately base -- to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.