Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/zo3ef1r2 · submitted 1997
Some people are sympathetic; others are just pathetic.
tiny.ag/rmw0uaoj · submitted 1997
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
tiny.ag/dtrgibi2 · submitted 1997
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
tiny.ag/dbuk2zcq · submitted 1997
When choosing between evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
tiny.ag/iah742zs · submitted 1997
It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
tiny.ag/bvnk86xs · submitted 1997
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/mqycsaej · submitted 1999
The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
tiny.ag/kfcphxpx · submitted 1997
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
tiny.ag/akhrcibo · submitted 1997
A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.
tiny.ag/4uvnidhy · submitted 1997
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
tiny.ag/eccda2wq · submitted 1997
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/jq7rxlqz · submitted 1997
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
tiny.ag/dyq1q946 · 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/g42cvkx0 · 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 · submitted 1997
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
tiny.ag/i6tlcabi · submitted 1997
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
tiny.ag/hf615shl · submitted 1997
On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.
tiny.ag/gpt56czo · submitted 1997
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.
tiny.ag/zrxpvvz6 · submitted 1997
All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.
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