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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I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.
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When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places.
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In a situation where you don't think any of your roommates are home and you locked the door before you left, the first thing you should do before even putting the key in the door is turn the knob, ... If it turns, you should already be thinking that something might be wrong.
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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.
