Vice and Virtue
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tiny.ag/e2igybvl · ★★☆☆ Fair (1042 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Three Versions of Judas", in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/ubsgpw2q · ★★☆☆ Fair (226 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
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