Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/fqtpy65n · ★★☆☆ Fair (109 ratings) · submitted 1997
Everybody should believe in something -- I believe I'll have another drink.
tiny.ag/4euzwypx · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
tiny.ag/qyfvan9d · ★★☆☆ Fair (413 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
tiny.ag/fpmrxth3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (117 ratings) · submitted 1997
A mountain wears down a horse, anger wears down a man.
tiny.ag/d39nscy0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (193 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Ardyth M. Shaw
All the way to heaven is heaven.
tiny.ag/pqyzbh1e · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
tiny.ag/rmw0uaoj · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
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/dbuk2zcq · ★★☆☆ Fair (137 ratings) · submitted 1997
When choosing between evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
tiny.ag/cjkab7en · ★★☆☆ Fair (466 ratings) · submitted 1997
I can resist everything except temptation.
tiny.ag/e2kqoyj7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (480 ratings) · submitted 1997
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
tiny.ag/zo3ef1r2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some people are sympathetic; others are just pathetic.
tiny.ag/tqbfx5vp · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · submitted 1997
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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/fufp6yke · ★★☆☆ Fair (103 ratings) · submitted 1997
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
tiny.ag/iqolobqc · ★★☆☆ Fair (435 ratings) · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
tiny.ag/k4hosucr · ★★☆☆ Fair (902 ratings) · submitted 1997
Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.
tiny.ag/6qdfb14w · ★★☆☆ Fair (231 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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
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