#pleasure

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

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Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. ↗

— DeWitt Clinton

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It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work. ↗

— Chuck Close

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Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without...integrity? How could she have felt like that without love? Was love essential? Did it even exist - the love she had dreamed of her life? If it did, it was too late now for her to find it. Must she make do with this instead, then? Only this? Pleasure without love? ↗

— Mary Balogh

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Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself. ↗

— Raoul Vaneigem

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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains. ↗

— Democritus

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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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It's always a pleasure to find something that matters. ↗

— Don Cornelius

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It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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