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Vice and Virtue
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Comment# · Unrated · submitted 7 Mar by
Coleden
Pride as an individual doesn't mark one as wholly vengeful, selfish or with conceit; it only keeps them above those who cower in the sight of opposition, initiative, and defiance.
Cole Denison, my philosophy on pride, in
Vice and Virtue and
Wisdom and Ignorance
Comment# · Good (2 ratings) · submitted 9 Feb by
Jambone9
One's honesty is not questioned as much as the motives underlying it.
Comment# · Fair (5 ratings) · submitted 8 Feb by
Okay
Nobody in your life can care as much as you.. Make them understand that.
Doctor Bob, This is deep..., in
Vice and Virtue and
Love and Hate
Comment# · Fair (2 ratings) · submitted 27 Jan by
Jambone9
Impatience wants something done the day before yesterday.
Comment# · Fair (4 ratings) · submitted 15 Dec
Usually anything that makes you feel real good or that tastes real good is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Comment# · Fair (1018 ratings) · 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
Comment# · Fair (718 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Brian J. Dent
Too much of a good thing is just that.
Comment# · Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Glenn Troester
When you're angry, take a deep breath and count to ten. When you're really angry, swear.
Comment# · Fair (686 ratings) · submitted 1999
The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Comment# · Fair (745 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
Comment# · Fair (647 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
Comment# · Fair (1214 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
Comment# · Fair (914 ratings) · submitted 1999 by
Erwin van Moll
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Three Versions of Judas", in
Vice and Virtue
Comment# · Fair (724 ratings) · submitted 1998 (updated 1999)
The more debauched one becomes, the more one's fantasies revolve around chastity.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in
Vice and Virtue
Comment# · Fair (648 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in
Vice and Virtue
Comment# · Fair (715 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1999)
Yield to temptation -- it may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long), in
Vice and Virtue
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