Extravagance Quote by Aristippus Download Open image “If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.” — Aristippus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Extravagance Faults Festivals Ifs
God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding man and… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
It's disgraceful how these humans blame the gods. They say their tribulations come from us, when they themselves, through their own foolishness, bring hardships… — Homer Copy Share Image
Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves… — Homer Copy Share Image
Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded! — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods. — Polybius Copy Share Image
Perhaps we invented the gods so that we could put the blame on them. They gave us permission to eat flesh. They gave us… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral. — Aristippus Copy Share Image
It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted. — Aristippus Copy Share Image
Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women. — Aristippus Copy Share Image
“The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.” — Aristippus Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more. — Masaru Ibuka Copy Share Image
It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
“Heri kuwa maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wearing, you feel good. I… — Maria Valverde Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees,… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
