Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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41–60 (162)
tiny.ag/fm3etwy0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.
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/xo2lhomi · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1998 by A. Heyn
To forget is human, to forgive divine.
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/g42cvkx0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller, in Vice and Virtue and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/9te2rxr1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (506 ratings) · submitted 1997
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent
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/eccda2wq · ★★☆☆ Fair (271 ratings) · submitted 1997
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/jq7rxlqz · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
tiny.ag/umrsfwb2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (188 ratings) · submitted 1997
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
tiny.ag/9uv5rp2p · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.
tiny.ag/dyq1q946 · ★★☆☆ Fair (123 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.
tiny.ag/zl0ikbnv · ★★☆☆ Fair (427 ratings) · submitted 1997
Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
tiny.ag/5nmjgd34 · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
tiny.ag/hf615shl · ★★☆☆ Fair (430 ratings) · submitted 1997
On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.
tiny.ag/i6tlcabi · ★★☆☆ Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
tiny.ag/4uvnidhy · ★★☆☆ Fair (305 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
tiny.ag/gpt56czo · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.
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/ssgp4mwz · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
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