Aristippus Quotes

It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

Aristippus

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• As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
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• I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
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• The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

  

  Orson Welles
  • You
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• The situation now is really very different from the 1980s.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Different
  • Situation

• The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

  

  Madame Roland
  • Men
  • Dog
  • Canine

• It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Woman
  • Champion
  • Heavyweight

• We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Different
  • Wish
  • View

• God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.

  

  John Milton
  • Work
  • God
  • Gifts

• There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.

  

  John Milton
  • Christian
  • Duty
  • Set Off

• With monuments as with men, position means everything.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Position
  • Means
  • Monuments

• Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.

  

  Judith Viorst
  • Growth
  • Losing
  • Source

• Our desire for beauty is likely to outlast its object because, as Kant once observed, unlike all other pleasures, the pleasure we take in beauty is inexhaustible. No matter how long beautiful things endure, they cannot out-endure our longing for them.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Desire
  • Beauty
  • Pleasures

• Oh! I must somehow manage to do a figure in a few strokes.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Painting
  • Figures
  • Manage

• It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.

  

  Aristippus
  • Pleasures
  • Mastery
  • Abstinence