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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."
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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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"At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman."
Beauty
"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
Love
"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."
Love
"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."
Time
"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
Pleasure
"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."
Forgiveness
"But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite."
Positive
"If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life."
Life
"Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation."
Society
"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine."
Emotional
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