Vice and Virtue
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tiny.ag/0ctojvkr · submitted 1997
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect -- and no more of it than we had earned.
tiny.ag/nhmiijfj · submitted 1997
I drink to make other people interesting.
tiny.ag/d5uig8oy · submitted 1999 by Son House
If I didn't have a problem with alcohol, I'd drink all the time.
Havelock Ellis, (from biographer's notes), in Food and Drink and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ubsgpw2q · submitted 1997
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
tiny.ag/e2igybvl · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
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.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Three Versions of Judas", in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/9uv5rp2p · submitted 1997
He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.
tiny.ag/9te2rxr1 · submitted 1997
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent
tiny.ag/wobuqdw1 · submitted 1997
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Unknown, (Indian proverb), in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ubdtlbzz · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
When you're angry, take a deep breath and count to ten. When you're really angry, swear.
tiny.ag/zeuc9zpa · submitted 1997
While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
tiny.ag/5nmjgd34 · submitted 1997
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
tiny.ag/rdqgrf59 · submitted 1997
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
tiny.ag/9yutw8at · submitted 1997
It does not take much strength to do things, but it takes great strength to know what to do.
tiny.ag/ygwiuhmq · submitted 1997
Drugs are reality's legal loopholes.
tiny.ag/t2fxueny · submitted 1997
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
tiny.ag/edpzpyw4 · submitted 1997
Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.
tiny.ag/bpu9tj3d · submitted 1997
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
tiny.ag/pu94ynqw · submitted 1997
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
tiny.ag/x2tnoops · submitted 1997
The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in Vice and Virtue
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