Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/tmupilkz · ★★☆☆ Fair (504 ratings) · submitted 1997
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
tiny.ag/0y72zrbp · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
tiny.ag/igqpdgvh · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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/6y7nwgkt · ★★☆☆ Fair (1119 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Brian J. Dent
Too much of a good thing is just that.
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/mgrteolp · ★★☆☆ Fair (258 ratings) · submitted 2011 by peter
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Robert J. Hanlon, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/tsgrsoaf · ★★☆☆ Fair (224 ratings) · submitted 1997
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
tiny.ag/zcorimat · ★★☆☆ Fair (200 ratings) · submitted 1997
The scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest ways of suffering, and the most comfortable ways of dying.
tiny.ag/6ct2p1fh · ★★☆☆ Fair (214 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth fears no questions.
tiny.ag/wobuqdw1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (399 ratings) · submitted 1997
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Unknown, (Indian proverb), in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ubdtlbzz · ★★☆☆ Fair (1019 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
When you're angry, take a deep breath and count to ten. When you're really angry, swear.
tiny.ag/zeuc9zpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (207 ratings) · submitted 1997
While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
tiny.ag/0ctojvkr · ★★☆☆ Fair (210 ratings) · submitted 1997
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect -- and no more of it than we had earned.
tiny.ag/eljwsw1t · ★★☆☆ Fair (198 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.
tiny.ag/wj0czhzk · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more you put into life, the less you will get.
tiny.ag/0arre1jp · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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