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"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love."But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"
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"Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long."
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"No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure."
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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn't had any since Texas. He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, a bloody slab of cow haunch, a hen's sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with the shapes of insensate vegetables, plump green bodies that invite his appetite's innocent gusto. Candy."
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"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."
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"Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."
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"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."
Truth
"The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased."
Aesthetics
"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."
Pleasure
"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."
Strength
"Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money."
Friendship
"Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it."
Law
"Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts."
Thought
"Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."
Poetry
"A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich."
Man
"Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former."
Beauty
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