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 situation now is really very different from the 1980s.
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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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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.
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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.
