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"It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."
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"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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"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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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
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"Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long."
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"Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all."
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"Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure."
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"Let us have wine and woman 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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"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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"Patience and time do more than strength or passion."
Time
"The argument of the strongest is always the best."
Argument
"Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people."
Love
"Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value."
Ignorance
"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all."
Fear
"There is no road of flowers leading to glory."
Flowers
"By the work one knows the workman."
Work
"Neither wealth or greatness render us happy."
Wealth
"Better a living beggar than a buried emperor."
Living
"Luck's always to blame."
Blame
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