Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/2p8s4z0u · submitted 1997
Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
tiny.ag/mltkwzme · submitted 1997
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/xuteqz61 · submitted 1997
Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/iufy8ewr · submitted 1999
I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/bungm82p · submitted 1997
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
tiny.ag/uj7gzt1i · submitted 1997
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
tiny.ag/ahgswdqq · submitted 1999
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
tiny.ag/qnvx9otp · submitted 1997
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
tiny.ag/mbwozhf6 · submitted 1997
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
tiny.ag/q2py4esl · submitted 1997
Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain, in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/iqolobqc · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
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/ctd7inn0 · submitted 1997
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.
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/pu94ynqw · submitted 1997
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
tiny.ag/x2tnoops · submitted 1997
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, 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/rdqgrf59 · submitted 1997
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
tiny.ag/3klonk4i · submitted 1997
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
tiny.ag/bpu9tj3d · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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