Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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81–100 (162)
tiny.ag/v0yeshan · ★★☆☆ Fair (161 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm not afraid of work... I can even sleep beside it.
tiny.ag/d6tftb8q · ★★☆☆ Fair (170 ratings) · submitted 1997
If everyone would sweep in front of their own door, the whole world would be clean.
Unknown, (Middle Eastern proverb), in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/rh0iiyqp · ★★☆☆ Fair (125 ratings) · submitted 1997
If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.
tiny.ag/0xhdtnul · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will believe them.
tiny.ag/e2kqoyj7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (480 ratings) · submitted 1997
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
tiny.ag/qyfvan9d · ★★☆☆ Fair (413 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
tiny.ag/fpmrxth3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
A mountain wears down a horse, anger wears down a man.
tiny.ag/d39nscy0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (193 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Ardyth M. Shaw
All the way to heaven is heaven.
tiny.ag/pqyzbh1e · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
tiny.ag/4euzwypx · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
tiny.ag/ytxzhxw1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (55 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
tiny.ag/ahgswdqq · ★★☆☆ Fair (1091 ratings) · submitted 1999
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
tiny.ag/uj7gzt1i · ★★☆☆ Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
tiny.ag/bungm82p · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
tiny.ag/iufy8ewr · ★★☆☆ Fair (739 ratings) · submitted 1999
I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/xuteqz61 · ★★☆☆ Fair (328 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/mltkwzme · ★★☆☆ Fair (333 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/2p8s4z0u · ★★☆☆ Fair (380 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
tiny.ag/krxruwjx · ★★☆☆ Fair (1238 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (356 ratings) · 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.
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