Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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81–100 (162)
tiny.ag/dccyeyhv · submitted 1997
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.
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/ygwiuhmq · submitted 1997
Drugs are reality's legal loopholes.
tiny.ag/vjcm5iep · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
tiny.ag/tusapfzm · submitted 1997
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/dlbjkpva · submitted 1997
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
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/akhrcibo · submitted 1997
A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.
tiny.ag/ca72ttqk · submitted 1997
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
tiny.ag/zk2aryim · submitted 1997
There is no bad in good.
tiny.ag/uitd5jhz · submitted 1997
I want what I want when I want it!
Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/zl0ikbnv · submitted 1997
Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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/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.
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