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Vice and Virtue
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. [Select] For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is. [Select] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {Also in: Work and Recreation} He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do few things. [Select] Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day. [Select] The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. [Select] When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. [Select] I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. [Select] The more debauched one becomes, the more one's fantasies revolve around chastity. [Select] Christopher Spranger: The Effort to Fall [Shop] If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts! [Select] Christopher Spranger: The Effort to Fall [Shop] {Also in: Love and Hate} To forget is human, to forgive divine. [Select] Be good and you will be lonesome. [Select] Mark Twain: Following the Equator [Shop] {Also in: Happiness and Misery} Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. [Select] Stephen T. Steve {Also in: Wealth and Poverty} 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. [Select] Jorge Luis Borges: "Three Versions of Judas" If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. [Select] Thomas Jefferson {Also in: Law and Politics} I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well. [Select] Henry David Thoreau: Walden We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. [Select] Charles Caleb Colton: Lacon, 1.247 The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more. [Select] The time is always right to do what is right [Select] Too much of a good thing is just that. [Select] When you're angry, take a deep breath and count to ten. When you're really angry, swear. [Select]
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