Plato would not have a traveller lodge in a city that is not governed by laws, or hath not a quick stream running by it; illud enim animum, hoc corrumpit valetudinem, one corrupts the body, the other the mind.
Every corruption is a change; and so all that corrupts begins not to exist and ceases to be.
Objection 1: It would seem that evil corrupts the whole good.
Civilization corrupts the streams as it corrupts the Indian; only in such remote woods can you now see a brook in all its original freshness and beauty.
It has been a war of plunder, undertaken for the purpose of seizing Mexican territory, and extending over it that dismal curse which blackens, impoverishes, and barbarizes half the Union now, and swiftly corrupts the other half.
It is not the calling which corrupts the man, but the men the calling.
In this way the refined man who often drinks, but is never drunk, corrupts hundreds of men whom he never saw, and without intending it becomes a foe to society.
He contaminates trade; corrupts politics, making abusive laws, not asking for justice but only dividends.
He thus creates and corrupts a class of workers--many of them very highly trained and skilled, and correspondingly paid--whose subsistence is bound up with his income.
The trust, it said, corrupts legislative bodies and is responsible for the high tariff.
Of these, however, the latter is so far from being beneficial, that it even corrupts the sciences, except in the intercourse of man with man.
For there are many minds whose physiological timidity corrupts their judgment, and who lack the clairvoyance to unmask with infallible certainty that look of sneering apathy which is the pure expression of malice.
If he who corrupts the pronunciation of the sacramental words--does so on purpose, he does not seem to intend to do what the Church intends: and thus the sacrament seems to be defective.
Now, the apostle has two things to say of the old man: that hecorrupts himself in error as to the soul and in lusts as to the body.
The more elevated in kind is the object of human labor, the more the mercenary spirit, if it be present, makes this labor void and corrupts it.
I am not of those who believe in the natural perfection of man, and teach that society corrupts him.
I for thee devise, Whose leprous state corrupts all remedies?
The influence of evil, like the influence of good principles, is at first imperceptible; but it is usually found that the one corrupts more rapidly than the other reforms.
For as a man's own will more and more corrupts and depraves him; so the will of God more and more perfects and restores him.
The writer was a just and wise spirit: henceforward it is settled, the book is perfect; as love of the hero corruptsinto worship of his statue.
He who has published an injurious book, sins, as it were, in his very grave; corrupts others while he is rotting himself.
Hence those who are put to the test by them are angry with me, and not with them, and say that "there is one Socrates, a most pestilent fellow, who corrupts the youth.
Come, then, whether do you accuse me here, as one that corruptsthe youth, and makes them more depraved, designedly or undesignedly?
He is as wicked as the murderer, for the murderer may only take one life against the law, while the corrupt official and the man who corrupts the official alike aim at the assassination of the commonwealth itself.
If it is ever used for the ends of government, it has to be incessantly watched, or it corrupts the sources of the public virtue and agitates the country with questions unfavorable to the harmonious and steady pursuit of its true interests.
Cold February loved is dry; Plenty corrupts the melody That made thee famous once, when young.
Exceptions there happily are; but the number of children that grow up without any proper training or discipline at home is fearfully large, and their evil example corrupts not a few of those who are well brought up.
But darker its doom if longer retained to earth, yoked to the mind that corrupts it, and enslaved to the senses which thou bidst me restore to their tyrannous forces.
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