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“You know, I experimented with feeling guilty about the wholesome thing, but it seemed like too much work. I mean, I wasn’t even born then. I tried, I wallowed for a few months, and it just felt dumb.”
— Charlie Jane Anders, Suicide Drive (2008), reprinted in Rich Horton (ed.), The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009 (p. 260)
“That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.”
— Khalil Gibran, The Voice of the Master (trans. Anthony R. Ferris, 1958), p. 32.
“Friends and comrades! On that side [south] are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south.”
— Francisco Pizarro. This English translation of a 1527 manuscript is in William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru (1848), vol. 1, p. 263.
“He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.”
— Proverb; reported in Robert Christy, Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages (1888), p. 470, no. 12. Rev. F. P. Wilson, The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs, 3d ed. (1970), p. 234, has "He who excuses himself, accuses himself". Shakespeare expressed it as, "And oftentimes excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse", King John, act IV, scene ii, lines 30–31.
“Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.”
— Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.
“Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte est nocens.”
— He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

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Notable quotes

“You know, I experimented with feeling guilty about the wholesome thing, but it seemed like too much work. I mean, I wasn’t even born then. I tried, I wallowed for a few months, and it just felt dumb.”
— Charlie Jane Anders, Suicide Drive (2008), reprinted in Rich Horton (ed.), The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009 (p. 260)
“That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.”
— Khalil Gibran, The Voice of the Master (trans. Anthony R. Ferris, 1958), p. 32.
“Friends and comrades! On that side [south] are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south.”
— Francisco Pizarro. This English translation of a 1527 manuscript is in William H. Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru (1848), vol. 1, p. 263.
“He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.”
— Proverb; reported in Robert Christy, Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages (1888), p. 470, no. 12. Rev. F. P. Wilson, The Oxford Dictionary of English Proverbs, 3d ed. (1970), p. 234, has "He who excuses himself, accuses himself". Shakespeare expressed it as, "And oftentimes excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse", King John, act IV, scene ii, lines 30–31.
“Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.”
— Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.
“Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte est nocens.”
— He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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