I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. I ask your indulgence for my own errors, which will never be intentional, and your support against the errors of others, who may condemn what they would not if seen in all its parts.

I've always done "the wrong thing" and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.

... while discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.

I'm always making the mistake of believing what I see with my own eyes.

The lovely thing about humanity is that at times one may be unaware of doing right, but one is always aware of doing wrong.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

Do I wanna do right, of course
but do I really wanna feel I’m forced
to answer you, hell no.
I’ve acquired quite a taste for a well-made mistake,
I wanna make a mistake.

Whenever somebody tells me to do something my instinct's always to do the opposite. It's got me into a lot of trouble, but I've had a lot of fun.

Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, and yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts that poison my happiness, and yet I love to indulge in them;

Sí, señora, aunque bien contra mi voluntad: especialmente mis propios pensamientos carnales, que tanto nos complacían a mí y a mis paisanos; pero ahora todas estas cosas me pesan tanto que, si la elección fuera solo mía, nunca más pensaría en ellas. Pero cuando quiero hacer el bien, entonces veo que el mal está en mí3.