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"Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?"
"Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight."
"Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading."
"Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing."
"Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure."
"The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry."
"The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind."
"I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures."
"There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living."
"In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain."
"We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure."
"Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue."
"Love not Pleasure; love God."
"I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure."
"Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude."
"Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty."
"The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure."
"Beauty is objectified pleasure."
"The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with the poverty of those that can at any time be felt."
"What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing."
