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“All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.”

“O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.”

Firsts Believe Women Born Forget Regret Betrayal Betray Deceiving Repent

Book:Songs of the Sun-lands

Source: Songs of the Sun-lands

“As there are some faults that have been termed faults on the right side, so there are some errors that might be denominated errors on the safe side. Thus we seldom regret having been too mild, too cautious, or too humble; but we often repent having been too violent, too precipitate, or too proud.”

Has Beens Might Sides Regret Proud Safe Errors Faults Humble Violent Repent Cautious

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, "thus far and no further." If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, "If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Ifs Men Feels Ends Home Government Lines Land Regret Pride Draws Corporations Behaviour Repent Spears Bulldozers

Author:Edward Abbey

“It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.”

Loss Sin Pleasure Regret Repent

Author:Oscar Wilde

“it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.”

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli