Aristippus Quotes

The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.

Aristippus

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• It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

  

  Natasha Leggero
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• I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
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• As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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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.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Guy
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• I don't define anything I eat as a vice.

  

  Marion Nestle
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• It is foolish to think that we will enter heaven without entering into ourselves.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Thinking
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• If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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  • Say
  • Vice

• Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

  

  Aristotle
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• What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Christianity
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  • Vice

• So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.

  

  Lord Byron
  • I Think
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  • Avarice

• Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

  

  William Blake
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  • Vice
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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
  • Soul
  • Virtue
  • Vice

• Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • World
  • Persons
  • Self

• [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
  • Child
  • Vice
  • Adultery

• There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind."

  

  William Macneile Dixon
  • Mankind
  • Vice
  • Hates

• How very different it would be to live somewhere where people weren't afraid to reveal themselves, where emotion was prized instead of hidden.

  

  Karen Ranney
  • People
  • Different
  • Emotion

• The vice lies not in entering the bordello but in not coming out.

  

  Aristippus
  • Vice
  • Entering
  • Bordello