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Vice and Virtue
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Commenttiny.ag/xjufzea6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (971 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Commenttiny.ag/54eiupku · ★★☆☆ Fair (395 ratings) · submitted 1997
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Commenttiny.ag/koyhdrgm · ★★☆☆ Fair (838 ratings) · submitted 1997
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle, Rhetoric, in Vice and Virtue
The Art of Rhetoric (paperback)Commenttiny.ag/ctd7inn0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (637 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.
Commenttiny.ag/riquczeo · ★★☆☆ Fair (902 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation, in Vice and Virtue
Foundation (paperback)Commenttiny.ag/38uw2bmm · ★★☆☆ Fair (244 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
Commenttiny.ag/yvbktsoi · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
Commenttiny.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
Commenttiny.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.
Commenttiny.ag/wj0czhzk · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997 ·
The more you put into life, the less you will get.
Commenttiny.ag/eljwsw1t · ★★☆☆ Fair (198 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.
Commenttiny.ag/tsgrsoaf · ★★☆☆ Fair (224 ratings) · submitted 1997
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Commenttiny.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.
Commenttiny.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
Commenttiny.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.
Commenttiny.ag/zeuc9zpa · ★★☆☆ Fair (207 ratings) · submitted 1997
While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.
Commenttiny.ag/vdvrew4w · ★★☆☆ Fair (232 ratings) · submitted 1997
Pardo's First Postulate: Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
Commenttiny.ag/nsh95i8e · ★★☆☆ Fair (268 ratings) · submitted 1997
People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito.
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