When you first become involved in something evil, don't say… - Marcus Eremita

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When you first become involved in something evil, don't say: 'It will not overpower me.' For to the extent that you are involved you have already been overpowered by it.

Marcus Eremita

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Marcus Eremita, Mark the Ascetic or Marcus the Ascetic was a Christian theologian, saint, and ascetic writer of the fifth century AD.

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Alternative Names: Mark the Hermit

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John Lancaster Spalding François de La Rochefoucauld Augustine of Hippo Friedrich Nietzsche Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib

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Do not say: 'I do not know what is right, therefore I am not to blame when I fail to do it.' For if you did all the good about which you do know, what you should do next would then become clear to you.

I have seen unlearned men who were truly humble, and they became wiser than the wise.

However great our virtuous actions of today, they do not requite but condemn our past negligence.

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