Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid -
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
Abraham Clark -
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Xenophon -
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin -
Work is both my living and my pleasure.
Harlan Howard -
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Vernon Lee -
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig -
I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
Gary Hume -
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
Abraham Clark -
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie -
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
G. Willow Wilson -
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
Saint Bernard -
My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Rachel Bilson -
I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.
Taylor Kinney -
Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
R. C. Sproul -
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
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A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
Ernst Mach -
Honey, have you ever seen a man knitting socks?
Ezer Weizman -
The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.
Seth Godin -
Pleasure is the bait of sin.
Plato