#agreeable

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. ↗

— George Eliot

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Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it! ↗

— Johann Most

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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#eccentric #happiness #hard-times #inspirational #ridiculous

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

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