#pleasures

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives. ↗

— John Zimmerman

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By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

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Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! ↗

— Confucius

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After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ↗

— Voltaire

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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise. ↗

— Barbara Walters

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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