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"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."
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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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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a 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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"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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"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor."
Ability
"Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."
Virtue
"Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin."
Moderation
"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."
Desire
"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader."
Leadership
"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it."
Truth
"It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt."
Nature
"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured."
Nature
"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty."
Truth
"Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from."
Love
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