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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Pleasure
Epictetus

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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Enthusiasm
Desiderius Erasmus

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Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
Complaints and Complaining
Francois FeNelon

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
Work
B. C. Forbes

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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Pleasure
Benjamin Franklin

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There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
Gambling
French Proverb

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Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.
Popularity
Margaret Fuller

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
Friends and Friendship
Kahlil Gibran

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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
Ambition
Oliver Goldsmith

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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Work
Maxim Gorky

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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
Suffering
George Gurdjieff

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Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.
Tomorrow
Rex Harrison

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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Promises
William Hazlitt

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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
Taste
William Hazlitt

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Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.
Baseball
Tommy Henrich

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
Pleasure
Raymond Hitchcock

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No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
Poetry and Poets
Horace

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If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Anticipation
Elbert Hubbard

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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Thoughts and Thinking
Victor Hugo

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Pleasure
Aldous Huxley

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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Speed
Aldous Huxley

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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Pleasure
Thomas Jefferson

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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Pleasure
Samuel Johnson

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Music
Samuel Johnson

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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Marriage
Samuel Johnson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun