"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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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."

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"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."

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"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."

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"But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do."

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"It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

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"It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

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"Ease up, the play is over."

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"Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked."

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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."

"Joy is not a substitute for sex, sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy."

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"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."

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