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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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were presented to them. Instead of endeavoring to redistribute the acquisitions which have been made between the existing classes, our aim should be to increase, multiply, and extend the chances.
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I think it's always tough coming back from an injury, physically and mentally. But Michelle has proven herself in different situations and she's a tough competitor.
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Back when the EPA proposed phasing out ozone-depleting CFCs, the chemical industry howled that refrigerators would fail in America's supermarkets, hospitals and schools.
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I adhere to the law of chastity because I don’t believe in pushing women. That’s what it means to be a man. I don’t hurt others simply to make myself feel superior. Gossip can ruin a woman as surely as unchaste behavior. True men don’t indulge in either. We don’t need to.
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The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.
