Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/qyfvan9d · ★★☆☆ Fair (413 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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/4izcdfw7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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/wpd94fsg · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
The superfluous is very necessary.
tiny.ag/zo3ef1r2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some people are sympathetic; others are just pathetic.
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/e2kqoyj7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (480 ratings) · submitted 1997
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
tiny.ag/cjkab7en · ★★☆☆ Fair (466 ratings) · submitted 1997
I can resist everything except temptation.
tiny.ag/dbuk2zcq · ★★☆☆ Fair (137 ratings) · submitted 1997
When choosing between evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
tiny.ag/rmw0uaoj · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
tiny.ag/tqbfx5vp · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · submitted 1997
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
tiny.ag/dtrgibi2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (132 ratings) · submitted 1997
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
tiny.ag/2p8s4z0u · ★★☆☆ Fair (380 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.
tiny.ag/xuteqz61 · ★★☆☆ Fair (328 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
tiny.ag/iufy8ewr · ★★☆☆ Fair (739 ratings) · submitted 1999
I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/bungm82p · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
tiny.ag/mltkwzme · ★★☆☆ Fair (333 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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