"Should a person do good, let him do it again and again. Let him find pleasure therein, for blissful is the accumulation of good."
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"Even when we are quite alone, how often do we think with pleasure or pain of what others think of us - of their imagined approbation or disapprobation."
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"I don’t think I’m made for any earthly kind of pleasure."
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"Perhaps all pleasure is only relief."
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"How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him."
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"I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil."
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"The gift of Truthovercomes all gifts.The joy of Truthovercomes all pleasures.The taste of Truthovercomes all sweetness."
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"Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels."
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"The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person."
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"For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure."
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"Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure."
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"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty."
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"Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time."
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"Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure."
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"Every action has its pleasures and its price."
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"Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit."
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"I think that sense of always traveling has something to do with anonymity and privacy and pleasure in having a very clear, very reductive life."
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"We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure."
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"You know the pain is part of the whole thing. And it isn’t that you can say afterwards the pleasure was greater than the pain and that’s why you would do it again. That has nothing to do with it. You can’t measure it, because the pain comes after and it lasts longer. So the question really is, Why doesn’t that pain make you say, I won’t do it again? When the pain is so bad that you have to say that, but you don’t."
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"Pleasure is the most real good in this life."
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