Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/4euzwypx · submitted 1997
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
tiny.ag/pqyzbh1e · submitted 1997
Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
tiny.ag/d39nscy0 · submitted 1997 by Ardyth M. Shaw
All the way to heaven is heaven.
tiny.ag/fpmrxth3 · submitted 1997
A mountain wears down a horse, anger wears down a man.
tiny.ag/lhbjvuc3 · submitted 1997
He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do few things.
tiny.ag/yzqij6mr · submitted 1997
I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.
Haldane, in Vice and Virtue and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/qeydmvyx · submitted 1997
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
tiny.ag/tymlwb79 · submitted 1997
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/mabd7tri · submitted 1997
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
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/tmupilkz · submitted 1997
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
tiny.ag/0y72zrbp · submitted 1997
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
tiny.ag/igqpdgvh · submitted 1997
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
tiny.ag/v7xs8s9o · submitted 1997
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
tiny.ag/rmw0uaoj · submitted 1997
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
tiny.ag/dtrgibi2 · submitted 1997
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
tiny.ag/dbuk2zcq · submitted 1997
When choosing between evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
tiny.ag/e2kqoyj7 · submitted 1997
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
tiny.ag/qyfvan9d · submitted 1997
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
tiny.ag/tqbfx5vp · submitted 1997
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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