Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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81–100 (162)
tiny.ag/bafxiwkf · submitted 1997
If you treat a person as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat him for what he could be, he will become what he could be.
tiny.ag/4euzwypx · submitted 1997
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
tiny.ag/kl7xzzq3 · submitted 1997
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
tiny.ag/lqgxtc5y · submitted 1997
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
tiny.ag/mabd7tri · submitted 1997
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
tiny.ag/tymlwb79 · submitted 1997
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/qeydmvyx · submitted 1997
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
tiny.ag/xuteqz61 · submitted 1997
Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/mltkwzme · submitted 1997
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/2p8s4z0u · submitted 1997
Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
tiny.ag/krxruwjx · submitted 1999
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator, in Happiness and Misery and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/17uoj5hx · submitted 1997
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
tiny.ag/vdvrew4w · submitted 1997
Pardo's First Postulate: Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
tiny.ag/nsh95i8e · submitted 1997
People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito.
tiny.ag/0arre1jp · submitted 1997
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
tiny.ag/kqsn5x9k · submitted 1997
Resisting temptation is easier when you think you'll probably get another chance later on.
tiny.ag/jgcbbn8p · submitted 1997
Revenge is sleeping with your enemy's wife. Sweet revenge is the realization that she's a lousy lay.
tiny.ag/mldrjipn · submitted 1997
The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I'll walk carefully.
Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/wj0czhzk · submitted 1997
The more you put into life, the less you will get.
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