#pleasures

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. ↗

— Lord Byron

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But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

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Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. ↗

— Epictetus

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Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. ↗

— Ann Landers

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Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. ↗

— Norman Lear

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