Vice and Virtue

I'm not afraid of work... I can even sleep beside it.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation

If everyone would sweep in front of their own door, the whole world would be clean.

Unknown, (Middle Eastern proverb), in Vice and Virtue

If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will believe them.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

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.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

Unknown, in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue

It is easier to point the finger than to offer a helping hand.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

John Dryden, in Vice and Virtue

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Georges Duhamel, in Vice and Virtue

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein, in Vice and Virtue

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates, in Vice and Virtue

To forget is human, to forgive divine.

Marc Spierings, in Vice and Virtue

If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts!

Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Love and Hate and Vice and Virtue

The more debauched one becomes, the more one's fantasies revolve around chastity.

Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Vice and Virtue

Everything in moderation -- including moderation.

Harvey Steiman, in Vice and Virtue

Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.

Stephen T. Steve, in Vice and Virtue and Wealth and Poverty

When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.

Jonathan Swift, in Vice and Virtue

A mountain wears down a horse, anger wears down a man.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

All the way to heaven is heaven.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue