Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/tymlwb79 · ★★☆☆ Fair (3392 ratings) · submitted 1997
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/qeydmvyx · ★★☆☆ Fair (899 ratings) · submitted 1997
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
tiny.ag/yzqij6mr · ★★☆☆ Fair (766 ratings) · submitted 1997
I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.
Haldane, in Vice and Virtue and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/lhbjvuc3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (736 ratings) · submitted 1997
He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do few things.
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
tiny.ag/p3i4etjg · ★★☆☆ Fair (159 ratings) · submitted 1997
'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
tiny.ag/xkpfj82n · ★★☆☆ Fair (490 ratings) · submitted 1997
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
tiny.ag/6y7nwgkt · ★★☆☆ Fair (1119 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Brian J. Dent
Too much of a good thing is just that.
tiny.ag/igqpdgvh · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
tiny.ag/0y72zrbp · ★★☆☆ Fair (107 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
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/d5uig8oy · ★★☆☆ Fair (1187 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Son House
If I didn't have a problem with alcohol, I'd drink all the time.
Havelock Ellis, (from biographer's notes), in Food and Drink and Vice and Virtue
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/mldrjipn · ★★☆☆ Fair (257 ratings) · submitted 1997
The church is near but the road is icy; the bar is far away but I'll walk carefully.
Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/wj0czhzk · ★★☆☆ Fair (249 ratings) · submitted 1997
The more you put into life, the less you will get.
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/tsgrsoaf · ★★☆☆ Fair (224 ratings) · submitted 1997
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
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