Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/g42cvkx0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller, in Vice and Virtue and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/umrsfwb2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (188 ratings) · submitted 1997
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
tiny.ag/dyq1q946 · ★★☆☆ Fair (123 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.
tiny.ag/jq7rxlqz · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
tiny.ag/i6tlcabi · ★★☆☆ Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
tiny.ag/nhmiijfj · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
I drink to make other people interesting.
tiny.ag/5nmjgd34 · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
tiny.ag/hf615shl · ★★☆☆ Fair (430 ratings) · submitted 1997
On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.
tiny.ag/4uvnidhy · ★★☆☆ Fair (305 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
tiny.ag/eccda2wq · ★★☆☆ Fair (271 ratings) · submitted 1997
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/gpt56czo · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.
tiny.ag/pxnbu4ey · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · submitted 1997
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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/s3j4zgfm · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
tiny.ag/1f9y6qie · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
tiny.ag/mnrh4p2b · ★★☆☆ Fair (608 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
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/ssgp4mwz · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
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.
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