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"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."
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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."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"Great sex is a natural drug."
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"Buying is a profound pleasure."
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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always 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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"Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life."
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"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry."
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"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."
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"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."
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"I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia."
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"Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong."
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"The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged."
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"Men should strive to think much and know little."
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"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."
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"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds."
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"It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others."
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