Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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21–40 (162)
tiny.ag/uc5f23qi · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
tiny.ag/lqgxtc5y · ★★☆☆ Fair (900 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
tiny.ag/kl7xzzq3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1039 ratings) · submitted 1997
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
tiny.ag/xkpfj82n · ★★☆☆ Fair (490 ratings) · submitted 1997
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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/yvbktsoi · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
tiny.ag/38uw2bmm · ★★☆☆ Fair (244 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
tiny.ag/zl0ikbnv · ★★☆☆ Fair (427 ratings) · submitted 1997
Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
tiny.ag/xjufzea6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (971 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
tiny.ag/ca72ttqk · ★★☆☆ Fair (289 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
tiny.ag/v0yeshan · ★★☆☆ Fair (161 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm not afraid of work... I can even sleep beside it.
tiny.ag/dsx2hptx · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · submitted 1997
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins for two weeks.
Unknown, (Sioux Indian prayer), in Vice and Virtue
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
tiny.ag/f2qlymio · ★★☆☆ Fair (232 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'd like to meet the man who invented sex and see what he's working on now.
Unknown, in Love and Hate and 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/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/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/rh0iiyqp · ★★☆☆ Fair (125 ratings) · submitted 1997
If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.
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
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