Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/pcf4akr5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (817 ratings) · submitted 1999
We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1.247, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/a05b6vef · ★★☆☆ Fair (410 ratings) · submitted 1997
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
tiny.ag/koyyze4o · ★★☆☆ Fair (589 ratings) · submitted 1997
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
tiny.ag/fufp6yke · ★★☆☆ Fair (103 ratings) · submitted 1997
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
tiny.ag/k4hosucr · ★★☆☆ Fair (902 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.
tiny.ag/iqolobqc · ★★☆☆ Fair (435 ratings) · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
tiny.ag/l4pyn7j8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (472 ratings) · submitted 1997
I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
tiny.ag/6qdfb14w · ★★☆☆ Fair (231 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
tiny.ag/zo3ef1r2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some people are sympathetic; others are just pathetic.
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/v7xs8s9o · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
tiny.ag/4izcdfw7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
tiny.ag/zrxpvvz6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (111 ratings) · submitted 1997
All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.
tiny.ag/qnvx9otp · ★★☆☆ Fair (205 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
tiny.ag/wpd94fsg · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
The superfluous is very necessary.
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