Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/ixldmygb · submitted 1997
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/raz2xodz · submitted 1997
He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.
tiny.ag/iudoprdc · submitted 1997
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
tiny.ag/nf5uvtlk · submitted 1997
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
tiny.ag/1f9y6qie · submitted 1997
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
tiny.ag/mnrh4p2b · submitted 1997
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/dlbjkpva · submitted 1997
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
tiny.ag/vjcm5iep · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
tiny.ag/tusapfzm · submitted 1997
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/s3j4zgfm · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
tiny.ag/6qdfb14w · submitted 1997
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
tiny.ag/l4pyn7j8 · submitted 1997
I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
tiny.ag/iah742zs · submitted 1997
It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
tiny.ag/tqbfx5vp · submitted 1997
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · submitted 1999 by Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
tiny.ag/ygwiuhmq · submitted 1997
Drugs are reality's legal loopholes.
tiny.ag/zk2aryim · submitted 1997
There is no bad in good.
tiny.ag/l5snrywf · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
tiny.ag/uitd5jhz · submitted 1997
I want what I want when I want it!
Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/p3i4etjg · submitted 1997
'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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