Quotes about Badness

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.

Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

The Bible is full of wealth, miracles, goodness and badness.

And every animal is better or worse from his own merit (virtue) or his own badness. Is there then no virtue in man only? and must we look to the hair, and our clothes and to our ancestors?