Vice and Virtue
161 aphorisms · 5 comments
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tiny.ag/iudoprdc · ★★☆☆ Fair (353 ratings) · submitted 1997
He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.
tiny.ag/raz2xodz · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.
tiny.ag/nf5uvtlk · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
tiny.ag/bvnk86xs · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
tiny.ag/8qrwy5es · ★★☆☆ Fair (86 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
tiny.ag/mqycsaej · ★★☆☆ Fair (734 ratings) · submitted 1999
The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
tiny.ag/kfcphxpx · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
tiny.ag/akhrcibo · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.
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/jq7rxlqz · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
tiny.ag/eccda2wq · ★★☆☆ Fair (271 ratings) · submitted 1997
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, in Vice and Virtue
tiny.ag/g42cvkx0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (272 ratings) · submitted 1997
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller, in Vice and Virtue and Wealth and Poverty
tiny.ag/dyq1q946 · ★★☆☆ Fair (123 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.
tiny.ag/umrsfwb2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (188 ratings) · submitted 1997
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
tiny.ag/l5snrywf · ★★☆☆ Fair (407 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
tiny.ag/lqgxtc5y · ★★☆☆ Fair (900 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
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