Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/jyl21f8h · ★★☆☆ Fair (143 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
tiny.ag/tgkornhe · ★★☆☆ Fair (1100 ratings) · 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/mgrteolp · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 2011 by peter
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Robert J. Hanlon, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/bpu9tj3d · ★★☆☆ Fair (296 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
tiny.ag/9yutw8at · ★★☆☆ Fair (83 ratings) · submitted 1997
It does not take much strength to do things, but it takes great strength to know what to do.
tiny.ag/edpzpyw4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.
tiny.ag/hifvkpkc · ★★☆☆ Fair (328 ratings) · submitted 1997
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
tiny.ag/rdqgrf59 · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
tiny.ag/3klonk4i · ★★☆☆ Fair (181 ratings) · submitted 1997
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
tiny.ag/pu94ynqw · ★★☆☆ Fair (299 ratings) · submitted 1997
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
tiny.ag/x2tnoops · ★★☆☆ Fair (810 ratings) · 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/9te2rxr1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (506 ratings) · submitted 1997
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent
tiny.ag/ubsgpw2q · ★★☆☆ Fair (226 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
tiny.ag/e2igybvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (1042 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Three Versions of Judas", in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/9uv5rp2p · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.
tiny.ag/5bldgyv4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (312 ratings) · submitted 1997
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
tiny.ag/roibaqpn · ★★☆☆ Fair (283 ratings) · submitted 1997
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
tiny.ag/dlhqo5iy · ★★☆☆ Fair (778 ratings) · submitted 1999
The time is always right to do what is right
tiny.ag/iqolobqc · ★★☆☆ Fair (435 ratings) · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
tiny.ag/pxnbu4ey · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · submitted 1997
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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