Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired

Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return

Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.”

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins