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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And all the defenses they had so carefully constructed to prevent hope from entering their minds collapsed.
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This vice brings in one hundred million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once - as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue.
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I end up feeling like a spy in the house of ethnicity, you know? Because people will talk around me as they would talk around the people in their cultural group. So I get to hear all the secrets and jokes and you know, I'm a part of every community because of the way I look.
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The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search engine like an oracle. I've used the phrase for DMT, 'Arabian hyperspace.' So I thought of this, and then I searched it, 'Arabian hyperspace,' in quotes. And it took me right to a transcript of the talk in which I'd said the thing! You can find your own mind on the Internet. I'm very grateful to the people who type up my talks and then post them at their websites.
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A friend of mine back in 1989 did an illegal rave in Vauxhall. He got Keith Haring to come along and tag the side of the wall. My friend cut it out of the wall and he kept it under his bed for 20 years. Then a few years ago he asks me if I want to buy it... so I spent £12,000 on a Keith Haring.
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The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.
