Pleasures Quotes
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Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex.
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Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
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We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
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Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.
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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
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Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.
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Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.
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I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
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The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.
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My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.
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Our desire for beauty is likely to outlast its object because, as Kant once observed, unlike all other pleasures, the pleasure we take in beauty is inexhaustible. No matter how long beautiful things endure, they cannot out-endure our longing for them.
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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.
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Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
