#pleasures

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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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not. ↗

— Orlando A. Battista

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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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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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Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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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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