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"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."
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"A dessert to a deserter in the desert burst, "You trust your thirst. And you are too hot! You scream for ice cream. And believe it or not, I may not be your first. But I might be your lust! Give it a shot..."
"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?"
"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
"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."
"Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable."
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"The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate."
"The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last."
"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."
"Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it."
"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."
"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."
"There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy."
"The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters."
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