#pleasure

Best for a person is to live his life being as cheerful and as little distressed as possible. This will occur if he does

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Just as no bodily pleasure at all can gladden the mind of one whose body is engulfed in flames, so too those full of

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Even in despair there are the most burning pleasures, especially when you are already very strongly conscious of

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Courageous is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but also he who overcomes pleasures.

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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

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To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too,

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Great delights come from beholding fine deeds.

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Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure? (Dance Video)

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of

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She finds rest as opposed to sleep the truly pleasurable state. To rest was to receive all aspects of the world

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The unreasoning desire that overpowers a person’s considered impulse to do right and is driven to take pleasure in beauty,

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The strong thinker, the man overflowing with intellectual life, naturally seeks to diffuse his ideas. There is no pleasure

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Whereas other pursuits yield their fruit only to those who have practiced them to perfection, in the love and practice of

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I enjoy using words. Or rather: I enjoy making words work. For me words are tangible bodies, visible sirens, sensualities

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We ought not to choose every pleasure, but that which tends to something good.

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