#pleasures

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child. ↗

— Willie Stargell

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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own. ↗

— Tibor Fischer

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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. ↗

— Aristotle

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But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement. ↗

— J. L. Austin

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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table. ↗

— Mario Batali

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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

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One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. ↗

— John Dryden

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