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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

Pleasure, Life, Joy, Travel

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

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Pleasure, Felicity, Happiness, Human, Joy

"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."

Woody Allen, American Director

Pleasure, Fun, Sex, Enjoyment, Humor

"Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Pleasure, Repetition, Joy, Humor

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Pleasure, Reading

"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Pleasure, Happiness, Truth, Life, Inspirational

"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Pleasure, Uniqueness, Emotion, Experience

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

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

Pleasure, Love, Life, Flowers, Joy

"Great sex is a natural drug."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Pleasure, Happiness, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

"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

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"Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy."

Government, Aristocracy, Laws

"For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim."

Cultural, Beer, Water

"He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce."

Pleasure,

"There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform."

Leadership, Contempt, May, Risk, Will

"Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not."

Self-control, Excess, Grief, Injury, Living

"The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril."

Leadership, Leader, Being, Cause, Followers

"The sweetest of all sounds is praise."

Praise,

"A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor."

Beauty, Will

"For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer."

Beauty, Understanding