#plea

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#always #explores #sense #smell #substances

After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#affected #after #appearance #criticisms #had

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. ↗

— Elsa Schiaparelli

#contributes #eating #gives #goodwill #great

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself. ↗

— Charles Seymour

#please #think #wrongly #you #yourself

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#anything #comes #delight #enjoy #enjoyed

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#true-to-self #truth #business

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain. ↗

— John Selden

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Music is all about training in harmony, training to understand and use musical energy for our greater pleasure by attuning to the natural laws of the universe. ↗

— Jane Siberry

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If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

#away #dim #enjoy #grow #live

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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