Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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121–140 (162)
tiny.ag/zk2aryim · submitted 1997
There is no bad in good.
tiny.ag/38uw2bmm · submitted 1997
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
tiny.ag/yvbktsoi · submitted 1997
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
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.
tiny.ag/jesbzwxp · submitted 1997
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
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/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/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/cjkab7en · submitted 1997
I can resist everything except temptation.
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/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/lhbjvuc3 · submitted 1997
He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do few things.
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