Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/fufp6yke · submitted 1997
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
tiny.ag/k4hosucr · submitted 1997
Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.
tiny.ag/iqolobqc · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
tiny.ag/koyhdrgm · submitted 1997
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle, Rhetoric, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ctd7inn0 · submitted 1997
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.
tiny.ag/riquczeo · submitted 1997
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/6qdfb14w · submitted 1997
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
tiny.ag/jgcbbn8p · submitted 1997
Revenge is sleeping with your enemy's wife. Sweet revenge is the realization that she's a lousy lay.
tiny.ag/kqsn5x9k · submitted 1997
Resisting temptation is easier when you think you'll probably get another chance later on.
tiny.ag/tsgrsoaf · submitted 1997
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
tiny.ag/zcorimat · submitted 1997
The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest ways of suffering, and the most comfortable ways of dying.
tiny.ag/eljwsw1t · submitted 1997
The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.
tiny.ag/wj0czhzk · submitted 1997
The more you put into life, the less you will get.
tiny.ag/mldrjipn · submitted 1997
The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I'll walk carefully.
Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/nsh95i8e · submitted 1997
People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito.
tiny.ag/vdvrew4w · submitted 1997
Pardo's First Postulate: Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
tiny.ag/0arre1jp · submitted 1997
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
tiny.ag/fpmrxth3 · submitted 1997
A mountain wears down a horse, anger wears down a man.
tiny.ag/i6tlcabi · submitted 1997
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
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