#plea

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#air #arms #being #charge #conducting

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. ↗

— George Sand

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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#fans #had #i #made #many

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ↗

— George Santayana

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It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases. ↗

— George Santayana

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The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character. ↗

— George Santayana

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The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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