美德/墮落 Virtue/Decadence

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The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
    —— Woody Allen
    Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
    —— Anonymous
    My good intentions are completely lethal.
    —— Margaret Atwood
    Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
    —— Roger Babson
    Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
    —— Roger Babson
    Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
    —— James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961
    Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
    —— Josh Billings
    I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
    —— G. K. Chesterton
    I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
    —— Alexandre Dumas pere
    If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
    —— Elbert Hubbard
    I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
    —— Samuel Johnson
    Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
    —— Adair Lara
    It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
    —— Abraham Lincoln
    The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
    —— W. Somerset Maugham
    Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
    —— H. L. Mencken
    There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
    —— Michel de Montaigne
    The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
    —— Paula Poundstone
    I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
    —— Mae West
    Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
    —— Mae West
    As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
    —— Oscar Wilde
    I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
    —— Oscar Wilde
    It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
    —— Oscar Wilde
    Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
    —— Oscar Wilde
    The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
    —— Virginia Woolf
    Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
    —— Fran??ois de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665