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• The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by plain.
  -- Colto...
• SIN OF OMISSION: Any sin that you forgot to commit.
• IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• We once were as you are. Spears and arrows. There came a time when our weapons grew faster than our wisdom, and we almost destroyed ourselves.
  We learned from this to make a rule during all our travels never to cause the same to happen to other worlds ....
• The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
• Chastity is its own punishment.
• War is its own punishment.
• Virtue is its own punishment.