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- Nov 07, 2020
Pleasures Quotes
What we chase, and what we pretend not to enjoy.
This set of pleasures quotes moves from illusion described as life's first pleasure to childhood memories built around simple, uncomplicated joys. For a contrasting view, see our Ascetic quotes.
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- Ascetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
- First Of All
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- Nov 07, 2020
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
By definition, comfort foods are rich and creamy or evocative of childhood pleasures.
- Ascetic
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- Nov 07, 2020
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
- Having
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- Nov 07, 2020
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
- Heaven
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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020