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| All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenues |
| Jonathan Swift |
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| All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish. |
| William James |
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| An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation |
| Plato |
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| If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available to madmen and dictators |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed |
| Albert Einstein |
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| It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves. |
| George Eliot |
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| It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. |
| John Steinbeck |
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| Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. |
| Horace |
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| Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. |
| Roland Barthes |
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| Pleasure is the bait of sin |
| Plato |
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| Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. |
| Plato |
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| Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures. |
| Voltaire |
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