Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/xkpfj82n · ★★☆☆ Fair (490 ratings) · submitted 1997
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
tiny.ag/p3i4etjg · ★★☆☆ Fair (159 ratings) · submitted 1997
'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
tiny.ag/mgrteolp · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · 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/d5uig8oy · ★★☆☆ Fair (1187 ratings) · 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/fpmrxth3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
A mountain wears down a horse, anger wears down a man.
tiny.ag/qyfvan9d · ★★☆☆ Fair (413 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
tiny.ag/e2kqoyj7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (480 ratings) · submitted 1997
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
tiny.ag/cjkab7en · ★★☆☆ Fair (466 ratings) · submitted 1997
I can resist everything except temptation.
tiny.ag/dyq1q946 · ★★☆☆ Fair (123 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.
tiny.ag/jq7rxlqz · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
tiny.ag/tmupilkz · ★★☆☆ Fair (504 ratings) · submitted 1997
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
tiny.ag/fufp6yke · ★★☆☆ Fair (103 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (902 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.
tiny.ag/6qdfb14w · ★★☆☆ Fair (231 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
tiny.ag/iqolobqc · ★★☆☆ Fair (435 ratings) · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
tiny.ag/yvbktsoi · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
tiny.ag/9te2rxr1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (506 ratings) · submitted 1997
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent
tiny.ag/e2igybvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (1042 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.
tiny.ag/ubsgpw2q · ★★☆☆ Fair (226 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
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