Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
101–120 (162)
tiny.ag/igqpdgvh · submitted 1997
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
tiny.ag/0y72zrbp · submitted 1997
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
tiny.ag/tmupilkz · submitted 1997
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
tiny.ag/d5uig8oy · submitted 1999 by Son House
If I didn't have a problem with alcohol, I'd drink all the time.
Havelock Ellis, (from biographer's notes), in Food and Drink and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/vjcm5iep · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
tiny.ag/tusapfzm · submitted 1997
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/dlbjkpva · submitted 1997
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
tiny.ag/s3j4zgfm · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
tiny.ag/1f9y6qie · submitted 1997
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
tiny.ag/mnrh4p2b · submitted 1997
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/38uw2bmm · submitted 1997
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
tiny.ag/yvbktsoi · submitted 1997
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
tiny.ag/6y7nwgkt · submitted 1999 by Brian J. Dent
Too much of a good thing is just that.
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/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.
101–120 (162)