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Voltaire

"This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it."

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"This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it."

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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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"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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"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."

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"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

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"Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."

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"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."

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"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."

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"Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life."

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