ex-sinner

Updated: June 25, 2025

Being, as he described himself with a smile, an ex-sinner, he had none of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal of distinctness, and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a doctrine which may be summed up as follows: "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it.

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables