Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/3klonk4i · submitted 1997
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
tiny.ag/bpu9tj3d · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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/yvbktsoi · submitted 1997
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
tiny.ag/edpzpyw4 · submitted 1997
Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.
tiny.ag/38uw2bmm · submitted 1997
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
tiny.ag/54eiupku · submitted 1997
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
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/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/xjufzea6 · submitted 1997
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
tiny.ag/hifvkpkc · submitted 1997
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
tiny.ag/9yutw8at · submitted 1997
It does not take much strength to do things, but it takes great strength to know what to do.
tiny.ag/mbwozhf6 · submitted 1997
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
tiny.ag/zrxpvvz6 · submitted 1997
All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.
tiny.ag/q2py4esl · submitted 1997
Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain, in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/j8lj2pgz · submitted 1997
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
tiny.ag/8v5ai4cz · submitted 1997
These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.
tiny.ag/4izcdfw7 · submitted 1997
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
tiny.ag/xuteqz61 · submitted 1997
Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
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