Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/qeydmvyx · ★★☆☆ Fair (899 ratings) · submitted 1997
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
tiny.ag/tymlwb79 · ★★☆☆ Fair (3392 ratings) · 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
tiny.ag/mabd7tri · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
tiny.ag/q2py4esl · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · 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/17uoj5hx · ★★☆☆ Fair (356 ratings) · submitted 1997
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
tiny.ag/qnvx9otp · ★★☆☆ Fair (205 ratings) · 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 · ★★☆☆ Fair (191 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
tiny.ag/xuteqz61 · ★★☆☆ Fair (328 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
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/9uv5rp2p · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.
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/ubsgpw2q · ★★☆☆ Fair (226 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
tiny.ag/krxruwjx · ★★☆☆ Fair (1238 ratings) · submitted 1999
Be good and you will be lonesome.
Mark Twain, Following the Equator, in Happiness and Misery and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/2p8s4z0u · ★★☆☆ Fair (380 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
tiny.ag/mltkwzme · ★★☆☆ Fair (333 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/iufy8ewr · ★★☆☆ Fair (739 ratings) · submitted 1999
I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/bungm82p · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
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/xo2lhomi · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1998 by A. Heyn
To forget is human, to forgive divine.
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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