Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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61–80 (162)
tiny.ag/j8lj2pgz · ★★☆☆ Fair (68 ratings) · submitted 1997
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
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/zrxpvvz6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (111 ratings) · submitted 1997
All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.
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/zo3ef1r2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some people are sympathetic; others are just pathetic.
tiny.ag/tqbfx5vp · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · submitted 1997
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
tiny.ag/iah742zs · ★★☆☆ Fair (109 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
tiny.ag/rmw0uaoj · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
tiny.ag/wpd94fsg · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
The superfluous is very necessary.
tiny.ag/tsfy8mui · ★★☆☆ Fair (248 ratings) · submitted 1997
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
tiny.ag/ytxzhxw1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (55 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everything in moderation -- including moderation.
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
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/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/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/mnliphwg · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.
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/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/fm3etwy0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.
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