The Evil of indifference (n.) was the prophets' discovery; the first man already knew about evil itself.
Vice (n.) piles up with numbers while virtues cancel each other out, like masterpieces in a crowded gallery: virtue is jealous, but vice seeks companions.
Vice (n.) is a group effort: we shove one another into it — and how is anyone to be saved with no one to hold him back and the whole human race urging him on?
Vice (n.) is the one and only author of evils, and the first cause of our misfortunes too: lack of self-control breeds disease, injustice costs men their hands, profligacy makes beggars.
Vice (n.) makes men prisoners of their own freedom: every surrender to passion adds a link to a chain they chose.
Villainy (n.) is headline news when an enemy state commits it; the same conduct by oneself or one's friends is presented as incidental background.
Villainy (n.) is a wearer of many masks, none of which is more dangerous than virtue.
Villainy (n.) is often called loyalty when it is great villainy.
Villainy (n.) is such that, when detected, it never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.
Wickedness (n.) is at bottom a pose in the man who restrains himself in nothing — his morality has simply fallen into the unconscious.
Wickedness (n.) is equally shared: introverted passion expresses itself in brutal deeds, while the vulgarity of the extravert's unconscious thoughts commits crimes against the soul of the victim — visible in one case, veiled by acceptable behaviour in the other.
Wickedness (n.) is running away from the one rational order that holds everything together.
Wickedness (n.) is an illness of the mind, as weakness is of the body, and so deserves pity rather than blame.