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“Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.” William Shakespeare, Richard III
“it is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.” Voltaire, Candide
“What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“If I didn't care about doing right, and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“Thus to persist in doing wrong extenuates not wrong, but makes it much more heavy.” William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
“I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.” Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
“Alas! how sad when reasoners reason wrong.” Sophocles, Antigone
“He who despairs is in the wrong.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“Suffering . . . Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Hence it is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“It may be thou art right: Unnatural silence signifies no good.” Sophocles, Antigone
“I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong doer.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.” Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
“To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.” Confucius, Analects
“Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good-night.” Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Whether it's right or wrong, I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“We may then lay down this rule of friendship—neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Friendship
“I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.” William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
“Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough—as most wrong theories are!” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
“why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.” George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin
“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a...” Thomas Paine, Common Sense
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“How heavy is the toll of sins and wrongs that wealth, power and prestige exact from man!” Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

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