Becoming Extremely Wicked Doesn't Happen Suddenly

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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. – Henry A. Kissinger

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it makes it difficult to class them serparately. One step above the sublime, makes the ridiculous; and one step above the ridiculous, makes the sublime again. – Thomas Paine

No one becomes extremely wicked suddenly. – Juvenal

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. – Sophocles

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. – Henry David Thoreau

Forgetting of a wrontg is a mild revenge. – Thomas Fuller

The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief. – William Shakespeare

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