Aristippus Quotes

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

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

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • People
  • You
  • Play

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

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Couple

• 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
  • Playing
  • Flying

• 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

• Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Politics
  • Modern
  • Fairness

• The thing that I see disappearing is just the love of old movies among kids. Everything's accessible, so you can get it, but when everything's accessible, that means you have to access it. And if you're not interested, you don't.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Kids
  • Mean
  • Disappear

• I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Politics

• The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel pain or fear, or has no consciousness. Even if it loses a war, the soldier suffers, the civilians suffer, but the nation cannot suffer. Similarly, a corporation cannot suffer, when it loses its value, it doesn't suffer. All these things, they're fictions. If people bear in mind this distinction, it could improve the way we treat one another and the other animals. It's not a good idea to cause suffering to real entities in the service of fictional stories.

  

  Esther Rantzen
  • War
  • Suffering
  • Consciousness

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

  

  Aristippus
  • Pleasures
  • Mastery
  • Abstinence