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Vice and Virtue
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# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
# · Good (one rating) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.
Haldane, in Health and Disease and Vice and Virtue
# · Unrated · submitted 1997 by Ardyth M. Shaw (updated 1998)
All the way to heaven is heaven.
# · Not So Good (11 ratings) · submitted 1997
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
# · Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
# · Not So Good (18 ratings) · submitted 1997
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
# · Bad (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.
# · Not So Good (8 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
# · Not So Good (21 ratings) · submitted 1997
Coward: one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
# · Not So Good (13 ratings) · submitted 1997
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
# · Not So Good (166 ratings) · submitted 1997
A truth that's told with bad intent<BR>Beats all the lies you can invent
# · Not So Good (48 ratings) · submitted 1997
He whose face gives no light shall never become a star.
# · Not So Good (9 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
# · Not So Good (5 ratings) · submitted 1997
I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
# · Not So Good (10 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
# · Not So Good (4 ratings) · submitted 1997
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
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