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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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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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"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."
Heart
"An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself."
Rest
"No finer, greater gift in the world than that: When man and woman possess their home, two minds, two hearts that work as one. Despair to their enemies, a joy to all their friends. Their own best claim to glory."
Family
"The tongue of man is a twisty thing."
Communication
"The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age."
Relationship
"Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her back as she tries to hurry off-all tears, fawning up at her, till she takes her in her arms That's how you look, Patroclus, streaming live tears."
Emotion
"The hearts of great men can be changed."
Transformation
"Labor conquers all things."
Work
"Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man."
Humanity
"And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved."
Journey
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