Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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101–120 (162)
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · submitted 1999 by Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
tiny.ag/i6tlcabi · submitted 1997
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
tiny.ag/hf615shl · submitted 1997
On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.
tiny.ag/gpt56czo · submitted 1997
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.
tiny.ag/4uvnidhy · submitted 1997
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
tiny.ag/eccda2wq · submitted 1997
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/jq7rxlqz · submitted 1997
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
tiny.ag/dyq1q946 · submitted 1997
If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.
tiny.ag/umrsfwb2 · submitted 1997
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
tiny.ag/g42cvkx0 · submitted 1997
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller, in Vice and Virtue and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/tgkornhe · submitted 1997
Yield to temptation -- it may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long), in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/jyl21f8h · submitted 1997
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
tiny.ag/7qd8abl4 · submitted 1997
Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people.
tiny.ag/jesbzwxp · submitted 1997
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
tiny.ag/9n0oa4te · submitted 1997
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
tiny.ag/ojpztwu9 · submitted 1997
Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
tiny.ag/l5snrywf · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
tiny.ag/hifvkpkc · submitted 1997
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
tiny.ag/3klonk4i · submitted 1997
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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