Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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141–160 (162)
tiny.ag/wgf7zuea · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
tiny.ag/ssgp4mwz · ★★☆☆ Fair (349 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down.
tiny.ag/1jfp82uv · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
tiny.ag/nhmiijfj · ★★☆☆ Fair (87 ratings) · submitted 1997
I drink to make other people interesting.
tiny.ag/5nmjgd34 · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
tiny.ag/i6tlcabi · ★★☆☆ Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
tiny.ag/hf615shl · ★★☆☆ Fair (430 ratings) · submitted 1997
On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.
tiny.ag/gpt56czo · ★★☆☆ Fair (129 ratings) · submitted 1997
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say "no" in any of them.
tiny.ag/4uvnidhy · ★★☆☆ Fair (305 ratings) · submitted 1997
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
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/jyl21f8h · ★★☆☆ Fair (143 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
tiny.ag/7qd8abl4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people.
tiny.ag/jesbzwxp · ★★☆☆ Fair (175 ratings) · submitted 1997
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
tiny.ag/9n0oa4te · ★★☆☆ Fair (173 ratings) · submitted 1997
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
tiny.ag/ojpztwu9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (420 ratings) · submitted 1997
Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
tiny.ag/l5snrywf · ★★☆☆ Fair (407 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
tiny.ag/zk2aryim · ★★☆☆ Fair (122 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is no bad in good.
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