Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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121–140 (162)
tiny.ag/zrxpvvz6 · submitted 1997
All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.
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/wpd94fsg · submitted 1997
The superfluous is very necessary.
tiny.ag/zo3ef1r2 · submitted 1997
Some people are sympathetic; others are just pathetic.
tiny.ag/tqbfx5vp · submitted 1997
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
tiny.ag/iah742zs · submitted 1997
It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
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/cjkab7en · submitted 1997
I can resist everything except temptation.
tiny.ag/akhrcibo · submitted 1997
A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.
tiny.ag/kfcphxpx · submitted 1997
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
tiny.ag/mqycsaej · submitted 1999
The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/bvnk86xs · submitted 1997
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
tiny.ag/nf5uvtlk · submitted 1997
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
tiny.ag/raz2xodz · submitted 1997
He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.
tiny.ag/iudoprdc · submitted 1997
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
tiny.ag/ixldmygb · 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 · submitted 1997
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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