"The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction."
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"Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction."
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"Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge."
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"Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains."
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"When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free."
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"I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded."
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"To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?"
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"It is a characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it is gone."
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"As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business."
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"The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23"
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"He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible."
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"Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure"
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"Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure."
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"... and we shall find A pleasure in the dimness of the stars."
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"The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading."
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"Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished."
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"Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction."
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"Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most."
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"There is a certain pleasure in weeping."
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"Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die."
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