Aristippus Quotes
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It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
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In general, comedians are attracted to vice.
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I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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You know," Shane said twenty minutes later, "I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think I was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.
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I don't define anything I eat as a vice.
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It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.
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If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.
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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
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Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.
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Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.
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[In China at that time:] The penalty for adultery is death by strangulation. Mai-da's mother has added the following note to this section; 'Adultery is a feminine vice. Copulation on the man's part is not his wife's concern, unless he sires a child. Then she must accept the child as one of his homestead.
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There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
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I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.
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Make the small big and the few many.
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No historian should be trusted implicitly.
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The streets and the industry are two different things. You could be one super-hot artist in the streets, and you could walk into a corporate building, and people would be like, "Who are you?"
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The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.
