Aristippus Quotes
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
Quotes to Explore
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.'
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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.
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The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne
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It's possible for the heavyweight champion of the world to be with one woman.
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We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
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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.
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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.
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With monuments as with men, position means everything.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
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Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
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She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.
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It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
