Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Aristippus NULL
Greek Philosopher, Founder of Cyrenaic School
"It is not abstinence from pleasures that is best, but mastery over them without being worsted."
"It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity."
"Boys should study those things which will be useful to them when they are men."
"The master of pleasure is not he who abstains from it, but he who uses it without being carried away by it."
"It is not wide reading but useful reading that tends to excellence."