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Aristippus

Aristippus (c. 435 – c. 356 BC), also known as Aristippus the Elder or Aristippus of Cyrene, was a Greek philosopher, founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy. He was born in Cyrene, a Greek colony in Northern Africa, and was a disciple of Socrates. In his teaching, he laid too much emphasis on one principle of Socrates, apart from the rest, in insisting too exclusively upon pleasure as the supreme good and ultimate aim of life. He flourished around 399 BC.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • The vice is not in entering, but in not coming out again.
- remark to pupils who saw him entering the house of a prostitute, cited in Montaigne, Essays

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