Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator."
Pleasure quotes
Pleasure
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Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist, Neurologist
"When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure."
William Wordsworth
Poet
"Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils."
William Wordsworth
Poet
"one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure."
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"The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning."
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"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
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"It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure."
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"Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure."
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"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."
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"Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain."
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"Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain."
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"No pleasure has any savor for me without communication."
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"Happiness is pleasure without regret"
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"Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship."
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"Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial."
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"My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."
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"These flowers are like the pleasures of the world."
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"Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another."
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"O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!"
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"We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good."
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"Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter."
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"A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know."
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"Every moment had its pleasure and its hope."
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties."
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