Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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101–120 (162)
tiny.ag/yzqij6mr · submitted 1997
I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.
Haldane, in Vice and Virtue and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/lhbjvuc3 · submitted 1997
He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do few things.
tiny.ag/tgkornhe · submitted 1997
Yield to temptation -- it may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long), in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/4uvnidhy · submitted 1997
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
tiny.ag/eccda2wq · submitted 1997
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/bafxiwkf · submitted 1997
If you treat a person as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat him for what he could be, he will become what he could be.
tiny.ag/ajwgbtvf · submitted 1997
If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
tiny.ag/mabd7tri · submitted 1997
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
tiny.ag/tymlwb79 · submitted 1997
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/qeydmvyx · submitted 1997
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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/6y7nwgkt · submitted 1999 by Brian J. Dent
Too much of a good thing is just that.
tiny.ag/p3i4etjg · submitted 1997
'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
tiny.ag/xkpfj82n · submitted 1997
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
tiny.ag/kl7xzzq3 · submitted 1997
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
tiny.ag/lqgxtc5y · submitted 1997
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
tiny.ag/koyyze4o · submitted 1997
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
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