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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
Plautus
While shame keeps watch virtue is not wholly extinguished from
the heart, nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the mind
of tyrants.
Burke
Shame is a great restraint upon sinners at first; but that soon
falls off: and when men have once lost their innocence, their
modesty is not like to be long troublesome to them. For
impudence comes on with vice, and grows up with it. Lesser
vices do not banish all shame and modesty; but great and
abominable crimes harden men's foreheads, and make them
shameless. When men have the heart to do a very bad thing,
they seldom want the face to bear it out.
Tillotson
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see
them not ashamed.
Swift
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Seneca
Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part ---
there all the honor lies.
Pope
Be assured that when once a woman begins to be ashamed of what
she ought not be ashamed of, she will not be ashamed of what
she ought.
Livy
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