Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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41–60 (162)
tiny.ag/j8lj2pgz · submitted 1997
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
tiny.ag/8v5ai4cz · submitted 1997
These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.
tiny.ag/4izcdfw7 · submitted 1997
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
tiny.ag/zrxpvvz6 · submitted 1997
All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.
tiny.ag/iudoprdc · submitted 1997
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/bvnk86xs · submitted 1997
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
tiny.ag/nf5uvtlk · submitted 1997
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
tiny.ag/raz2xodz · submitted 1997
He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.
tiny.ag/ixldmygb · submitted 1997
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
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/akhrcibo · submitted 1997
A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.
tiny.ag/kfcphxpx · submitted 1997
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
tiny.ag/mqycsaej · submitted 1999
The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
tiny.ag/umrsfwb2 · submitted 1997
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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/jq7rxlqz · submitted 1997
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
tiny.ag/i6tlcabi · submitted 1997
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
tiny.ag/gpt56czo · submitted 1997
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.
tiny.ag/hf615shl · submitted 1997
On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.
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