Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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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/ctd7inn0 · submitted 1997
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.
tiny.ag/54eiupku · submitted 1997
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
tiny.ag/38uw2bmm · submitted 1997
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
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/6y7nwgkt · submitted 1999 by Brian J. Dent
Too much of a good thing is just that.
tiny.ag/a05b6vef · submitted 1997
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
tiny.ag/pcf4akr5 · 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
tiny.ag/koyyze4o · submitted 1997
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
tiny.ag/fufp6yke · submitted 1997
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
tiny.ag/k4hosucr · submitted 1997
Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.
tiny.ag/iqolobqc · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
tiny.ag/6qdfb14w · submitted 1997
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
tiny.ag/ssgp4mwz · submitted 1997
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
tiny.ag/hf615shl · submitted 1997
On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.
tiny.ag/i6tlcabi · submitted 1997
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
tiny.ag/5nmjgd34 · submitted 1997
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
tiny.ag/nhmiijfj · submitted 1997
I drink to make other people interesting.
tiny.ag/1jfp82uv · submitted 1997
It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
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