Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/54eiupku · ★★☆☆ Fair (395 ratings) · submitted 1997
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
tiny.ag/d39nscy0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (193 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Ardyth M. Shaw
All the way to heaven is heaven.
tiny.ag/zrxpvvz6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (111 ratings) · submitted 1997
All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.
tiny.ag/raz2xodz · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.
tiny.ag/akhrcibo · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.
tiny.ag/kfcphxpx · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
tiny.ag/mqycsaej · ★★☆☆ Fair (734 ratings) · submitted 1999
The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/bvnk86xs · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
tiny.ag/nf5uvtlk · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
tiny.ag/iudoprdc · ★★☆☆ Fair (353 ratings) · submitted 1997
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
tiny.ag/tsfy8mui · ★★☆☆ Fair (248 ratings) · submitted 1997
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
tiny.ag/7hdzmwue · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/mnliphwg · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.
tiny.ag/ixldmygb · ★★☆☆ Fair (287 ratings) · submitted 1997
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/psiwplgd · ★★☆☆ Fair (266 ratings) · submitted 1997
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
tiny.ag/mnrh4p2b · ★★☆☆ Fair (608 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/1f9y6qie · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
tiny.ag/s3j4zgfm · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
tiny.ag/dlhqo5iy · ★★☆☆ Fair (778 ratings) · submitted 1999
The time is always right to do what is right
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