Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/uc5f23qi · submitted 1997
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
tiny.ag/mznhvk59 · submitted 1997
It is easier to point the finger than to offer a helping hand.
tiny.ag/kgx6jecr · submitted 1997
Jesus died for your sins. Make it worth his time.
tiny.ag/17uoj5hx · submitted 1997
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
tiny.ag/krxruwjx · submitted 1999
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator, in Happiness and Misery and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/2p8s4z0u · submitted 1997
Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
tiny.ag/mltkwzme · submitted 1997
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/xuteqz61 · submitted 1997
Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/iufy8ewr · 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/bungm82p · submitted 1997
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
tiny.ag/uj7gzt1i · submitted 1997
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
tiny.ag/ahgswdqq · submitted 1999
Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.
tiny.ag/7qd8abl4 · submitted 1997
Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people.
tiny.ag/raz2xodz · submitted 1997
He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.
tiny.ag/nf5uvtlk · submitted 1997
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
tiny.ag/ytxzhxw1 · submitted 1997
Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
tiny.ag/zllwc8ka · submitted 1998
The more debauched one becomes, the more one's fantasies revolve around chastity.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/qed4rpux · submitted 1997
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
tiny.ag/psiwplgd · submitted 1997
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
tiny.ag/mnliphwg · submitted 1997
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.
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