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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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Personal Development
"If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually."
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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
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"Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid."
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Personal Development
"Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes."
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"I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure."
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"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
People
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Man
"Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions."
Life
"Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms."
Life
"Disease generally begins that equality which death completes."
Death
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."
Hope
"Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth."
Art
"The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty."
Compassion
"Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears."
Strength
"Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us."
Psychology
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