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"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."
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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."
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"Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long."
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"Great sex is a natural drug."
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"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."
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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
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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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"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
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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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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."
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"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world."
Food
"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
Age
"To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning."
Force
"One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees."
Soul
"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
Man
"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."
Food
"What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?"
Family
"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom."
Love
"Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act."
Life
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