"There are two things that we should avoid, oh disciple! A life of pleasures, that is low and vain. A life of mortification, that is useless and vain."
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"In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures."
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"There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort."
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"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."
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"Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!"
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"A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth."
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"Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health."
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"If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us."
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"Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure."
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"If you're willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it's, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain."
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"Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures."
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"What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date."
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"My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure."
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"Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us."
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"The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure."
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"The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again."
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"We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret."
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"I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine."
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"There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs."
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"I've known Nicholas Parsons for a fairly long time and his geniune pleasures are in rubber tubes, metal clips"
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