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"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."
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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."
"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
"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."
"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
"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?"
"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."
"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."
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"The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free."
"According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another."
"This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again."
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