Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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21–40 (162)
tiny.ag/1jfp82uv · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
tiny.ag/nhmiijfj · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
I drink to make other people interesting.
tiny.ag/5nmjgd34 · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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/pcf4akr5 · ★★☆☆ Fair (817 ratings) · submitted 1999
We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1.247, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/a05b6vef · ★★☆☆ Fair (410 ratings) · submitted 1997
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
tiny.ag/koyyze4o · ★★☆☆ Fair (589 ratings) · submitted 1997
Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.
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/k4hosucr · ★★☆☆ Fair (902 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.
tiny.ag/rh0iiyqp · ★★☆☆ Fair (125 ratings) · submitted 1997
If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.
tiny.ag/rjjl9rkn · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
Kinky is using a feather, perverted is using the whole chicken.
tiny.ag/kgx6jecr · ★★☆☆ Fair (238 ratings) · submitted 1997
Jesus died for your sins. Make it worth his time.
tiny.ag/mznhvk59 · ★★☆☆ Fair (207 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to point the finger than to offer a helping hand.
tiny.ag/ajwgbtvf · ★★☆☆ Fair (229 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
tiny.ag/d6tftb8q · ★★☆☆ Fair (170 ratings) · submitted 1997
If everyone would sweep in front of their own door, the whole world would be clean.
Unknown, (Middle Eastern proverb), in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/0xhdtnul · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will believe them.
tiny.ag/bafxiwkf · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you treat a person as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat him for what he could be, he will become what he could be.
tiny.ag/uc5f23qi · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
tiny.ag/pqyzbh1e · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
tiny.ag/fpgp1ubk · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am so evil that heaven won't take me and hell is afraid I'll take over.
Unknown, (T-shirt), in Vice and Virtue
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