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No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.

Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.

Original text (Latin)

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Notes from Wikiquote

Compare: "There is a method in man’s wickedness, It grows up by degrees."—Beaumont and Fletcher, A King and No King, act v, sc. 4

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