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St Basil the Great, tr. Lowther Clarke, 1925

Rule 77: What is the Difference Between Deceit and Malignity?

Malignity, so I reckon, is a fundamental and hidden baseness of character: deceit is sedulous plotting, when a man feigning something good and holding it before another as an enticement works thereby the success of his plot.

Notes

  1. 2 Tim. ii. 5 κἄν for ἐὰν δὲ καί**.

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