Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
Aphorisms in This Category
81–100 (162)
tiny.ag/rh0iiyqp · ★★☆☆ Fair (125 ratings) · submitted 1997
If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.
tiny.ag/0xhdtnul · ★★☆☆ Fair (102 ratings) · submitted 1997
If people talk negatively about you, live so that no one will believe them.
tiny.ag/bafxiwkf · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you treat a person as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat him for what he could be, he will become what he could be.
tiny.ag/ajwgbtvf · ★★☆☆ Fair (229 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
tiny.ag/uc5f23qi · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
tiny.ag/mznhvk59 · ★★☆☆ Fair (207 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to point the finger than to offer a helping hand.
tiny.ag/38uw2bmm · ★★☆☆ Fair (244 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
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/4euzwypx · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
tiny.ag/ygwiuhmq · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
Drugs are reality's legal loopholes.
tiny.ag/vjcm5iep · ★★☆☆ Fair (300 ratings) · submitted 1997
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
tiny.ag/tusapfzm · ★★☆☆ Fair (106 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/dlbjkpva · ★★☆☆ Fair (165 ratings) · submitted 1997
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.
tiny.ag/s3j4zgfm · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
tiny.ag/1f9y6qie · ★★☆☆ Fair (52 ratings) · submitted 1997
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
tiny.ag/mnrh4p2b · ★★☆☆ Fair (608 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/7u0qrtca · ★★☆☆ Fair (1385 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Sugar
If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
tiny.ag/xuteqz61 · ★★☆☆ Fair (328 ratings) · submitted 1997
Always do right -- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
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