Wickedness

And so it is not only on account of those disadvantages which befall the wicked that we think wickedness should be shunned, but much more because, in whosever mind it dwells, it never lets him draw breath, never lets him rest.

And just as rashness and lust and cowardice always torment the mind and always vex it and are full of turbulence, so wickedness, if it has settled in anyone's mind, is turbulent by this very fact, that it is present;

But what so great an addition toward lessening the troubles of life can come from wicked deeds, as toward increasing them — both from the consciousness of those deeds, and from the penalty of the laws and the hatred of fellow citizens?

it is much harder to escape wickedness, for that runs faster than death.