"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."

Pleasure, Sorrow

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"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."

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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."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

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"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."

Stendhal, French Writer

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

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

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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."

Lord Byron, British Poet

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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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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?"

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

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"And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Pleasure, Food, Joy, Experience, Desire

"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."

Democritus, Greek Philosopher

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"Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry."

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"Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain."

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"Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves."

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