Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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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/i6tlcabi · submitted 1997
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
tiny.ag/pu94ynqw · submitted 1997
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
tiny.ag/koyhdrgm · submitted 1997
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle, Rhetoric, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ctd7inn0 · submitted 1997
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.
tiny.ag/x2tnoops · 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/rdqgrf59 · submitted 1997
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
tiny.ag/bpu9tj3d · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
tiny.ag/3klonk4i · submitted 1997
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
tiny.ag/xkpfj82n · submitted 1997
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
tiny.ag/yvbktsoi · submitted 1997
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
tiny.ag/xjufzea6 · submitted 1997
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
tiny.ag/riquczeo · submitted 1997
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/54eiupku · submitted 1997
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
tiny.ag/p3i4etjg · submitted 1997
'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
tiny.ag/38uw2bmm · submitted 1997
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
tiny.ag/mgrteolp · 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/0ctojvkr · submitted 1997
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect -- and no more of it than we had earned.
tiny.ag/ubdtlbzz · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
When you're angry, take a deep breath and count to ten. When you're really angry, swear.
tiny.ag/zeuc9zpa · submitted 1997
While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
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