Vice and Virtue

A man wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.

 John Ruskin, in  Vice and Virtue

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

 Saint Augustine, in  Vice and Virtue

The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

 Jonas Salk, in  Vice and Virtue

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

 William Saroyan, in  Success and Failure and  Vice and Virtue

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

 Charles Schulz, in  Vice and Virtue

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

 Albert Schweitzer, in  Vice and Virtue

He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.

 Seneca, in  Vice and Virtue

He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

 William Shakespeare, in  Vice and Virtue

A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

 George Bernard Shaw, in  Altruism and Cynicism and  Vice and Virtue

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

 George Bernard Shaw, in  Vice and Virtue

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.

 George Bernard Shaw, in  Vice and Virtue

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

 George Bernard Shaw, in  Altruism and Cynicism and  Vice and Virtue

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

 George Bernard Shaw, in  Vice and Virtue

They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.

 Philip Sidney, in  Vice and Virtue

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

 Socrates, in  Vice and Virtue

To forget is human, to forgive divine.

 Marc Spierings, in  Vice and Virtue

If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts!

 Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in  Love and Hate and  Vice and Virtue

The more debauched one becomes, the more one's fantasies revolve around chastity.

 Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in  Vice and Virtue

Everything in moderation -- including moderation.

 Harvey Steiman, in  Vice and Virtue

Alas, fortune does not change men; it unmasks them.

 Stephen T. Steve, in  Vice and Virtue and  Wealth and Poverty