To enjoy is not to corrupt. [ Mirabeau ]
All things can corrupt perverse minds. [ Ovid ]
Evil communications corrupt good manners. [ Proverb ]
The more corrupt the state, the more laws. [ Tacitus ]
Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge.
That no king can corrupt. [ William Shakespeare ]
Badly is the truth weighed by a corrupt judge. [ Horace ]
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. [ Horace ]
Be not deceived; evil communications corrupt good manners. [ Bible ]
A corrupt judge is not qualified to inquire into the truth. [ Horace ]
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt. [ Rousseau ]
Civilisation tends to corrupt men, as large towns vitiate the air. [ Amiel ]
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. [ Tacitus ]
Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last. [ Bacon ]
Love, that sometimes corrupts pure bodies, often purifies corrupt hearts. [ Latena ]
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. [ Beaconsfield ]
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. [ Cicero ]
Laws should be clear, uniform, precise: to interpret them is nearly always to corrupt them. [ Voltaire ]
Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. [ Milton ]
As wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. [ Bacon ]
If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us. [ Clarendon ]
The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt. [ L'Estrange ]
Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of man. [ Hooker ]
Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it. [ Feltham ]
That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending. [ Matthew Henry ]
The essence of humour is sensibility, warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all forms of existence; and unless seasoned and purified by humour, sensibility is apt to run wild, will readily corrupt into disease, falsehood, or, in one word, sentimentality. [ Carlyle ]
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. That is the reason why people who live out of town are so uncivilized. There are only two ways of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry - the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. [ Colton ]