Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/ojpztwu9 · submitted 1997
Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
tiny.ag/l5snrywf · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
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/kl7xzzq3 · submitted 1997
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
tiny.ag/lqgxtc5y · submitted 1997
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
tiny.ag/mabd7tri · submitted 1997
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
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/qeydmvyx · submitted 1997
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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.
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/p3i4etjg · submitted 1997
'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
tiny.ag/xkpfj82n · submitted 1997
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
tiny.ag/uc5f23qi · submitted 1997
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
tiny.ag/mznhvk59 · submitted 1997
It is easier to point the finger than to offer a helping hand.
tiny.ag/kgx6jecr · submitted 1997
Jesus died for your sins. Make it worth his time.
tiny.ag/rjjl9rkn · submitted 1997
Kinky is using a feather, perverted is using the whole chicken.
tiny.ag/nswjrmi0 · submitted 1997
Lead me not into temptation. I can find it myself.
tiny.ag/ogrqyeb7 · submitted 1997
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.
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