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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No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
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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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If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
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I'm not really fond of the trails left in the sky and a lot of chemicals that are being pumped through factories and even in the clothes we wear.
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It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted.
