Aristippus Quotes
The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.
Aristippus
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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
Lord Byron
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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
William Blake
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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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.
Bill Courtney
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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.
Nora Waln
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There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."
William Macneile Dixon
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When loving Him becomes obligation, one of the many things we have to do, we end up focusing even more on ourselves.
Francis Chan
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First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its essential spirit. Then, after the war, it became one among half a dozen world cities. Today it has the appearance of standing alone, as the center of culture in the part of the world that still tries to be civilized.
Malcolm Cowley
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I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.
Cameron Russell
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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
Oscar Wilde
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In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the governor's office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose.
Molly Ivins
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The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.
Aristippus
