Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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21–40 (162)
tiny.ag/v7xs8s9o · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
tiny.ag/8v5ai4cz · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil.
tiny.ag/xo2lhomi · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1998 by A. Heyn
To forget is human, to forgive divine.
tiny.ag/akhrcibo · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.
tiny.ag/kfcphxpx · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
tiny.ag/mqycsaej · ★★☆☆ Fair (734 ratings) · submitted 1999
The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/bvnk86xs · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
tiny.ag/nf5uvtlk · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
tiny.ag/raz2xodz · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.
tiny.ag/iudoprdc · ★★☆☆ Fair (353 ratings) · submitted 1997
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
tiny.ag/ixldmygb · ★★☆☆ Fair (287 ratings) · 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/psiwplgd · ★★☆☆ Fair (266 ratings) · submitted 1997
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
tiny.ag/mnliphwg · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.
tiny.ag/7hdzmwue · ★★☆☆ Fair (246 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/tsfy8mui · ★★☆☆ Fair (248 ratings) · submitted 1997
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
tiny.ag/fm3etwy0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.
tiny.ag/qed4rpux · ★★☆☆ Fair (100 ratings) · submitted 1997
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
tiny.ag/ckjtcepm · ★★☆☆ Fair (1026 ratings) · submitted 1998
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
tiny.ag/zllwc8ka · ★★☆☆ Fair (807 ratings) · submitted 1998
The more debauched one becomes, the more one's fantasies revolve around chastity.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Vice and Virtue
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