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

"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?"

"If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually."

"No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure."

"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart."

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

"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."
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