Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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21–40 (162)
tiny.ag/s3j4zgfm · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
tiny.ag/1f9y6qie · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
tiny.ag/mnrh4p2b · ★★☆☆ Fair (608 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/dlhqo5iy · ★★☆☆ Fair (778 ratings) · submitted 1999
The time is always right to do what is right
tiny.ag/5bldgyv4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (312 ratings) · submitted 1997
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
tiny.ag/pxnbu4ey · ★★☆☆ Fair (820 ratings) · submitted 1997
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
tiny.ag/tusapfzm · ★★☆☆ Fair (106 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/vjcm5iep · ★★☆☆ Fair (300 ratings) · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
tiny.ag/ygwiuhmq · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
Drugs are reality's legal loopholes.
tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · ★★☆☆ Fair (1385 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
tiny.ag/uitd5jhz · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
I want what I want when I want it!
Roy Horton, (at age six), in Success and Failure and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/zk2aryim · ★★☆☆ Fair (122 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no bad in good.
tiny.ag/l5snrywf · ★★☆☆ Fair (407 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
tiny.ag/ojpztwu9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (420 ratings) · submitted 1997
Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
tiny.ag/9n0oa4te · ★★☆☆ Fair (173 ratings) · submitted 1997
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
tiny.ag/jesbzwxp · ★★☆☆ Fair (175 ratings) · submitted 1997
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
tiny.ag/7qd8abl4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people.
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
tiny.ag/dccyeyhv · ★★☆☆ Fair (347 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares.
tiny.ag/tgkornhe · ★★☆☆ Fair (1100 ratings) · submitted 1997
Yield to temptation -- it may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long), in Vice and Virtue
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