Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/qnvx9otp · submitted 1997
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
tiny.ag/mbwozhf6 · submitted 1997
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
tiny.ag/q2py4esl · submitted 1997
Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain, in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/j8lj2pgz · submitted 1997
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
tiny.ag/dccyeyhv · submitted 1997
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.
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/zk2aryim · submitted 1997
There is no bad in good.
tiny.ag/9n0oa4te · submitted 1997
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
tiny.ag/yzqij6mr · submitted 1997
I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.
Haldane, in Vice and Virtue and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/lhbjvuc3 · submitted 1997
He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do few things.
tiny.ag/tgkornhe · submitted 1997
Yield to temptation -- it may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long), in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/jyl21f8h · submitted 1997
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
tiny.ag/jesbzwxp · submitted 1997
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
tiny.ag/l5snrywf · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
tiny.ag/ojpztwu9 · submitted 1997
Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
tiny.ag/7qd8abl4 · submitted 1997
Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people.
tiny.ag/kl7xzzq3 · submitted 1997
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
tiny.ag/mabd7tri · submitted 1997
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
tiny.ag/lqgxtc5y · submitted 1997
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
tiny.ag/tymlwb79 · submitted 1997
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
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