Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/3klonk4i · submitted 1997
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
tiny.ag/t2fxueny · submitted 1997
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
tiny.ag/pxnbu4ey · submitted 1997
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
tiny.ag/5bldgyv4 · 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/dlhqo5iy · submitted 1999
The time is always right to do what is right
tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · submitted 1999 by Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
tiny.ag/ygwiuhmq · submitted 1997
Drugs are reality's legal loopholes.
tiny.ag/vjcm5iep · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
tiny.ag/tusapfzm · submitted 1997
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/dlbjkpva · submitted 1997
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
tiny.ag/s3j4zgfm · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
tiny.ag/1f9y6qie · submitted 1997
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
tiny.ag/mnrh4p2b · 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 · submitted 1997
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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/jyl21f8h · submitted 1997
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
tiny.ag/ojpztwu9 · submitted 1997
Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
tiny.ag/7qd8abl4 · submitted 1997
Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people.
tiny.ag/9n0oa4te · submitted 1997
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
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