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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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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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To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. ↗

— Stanislaw Lem

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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found. ↗

— Moliere

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True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise. ↗

— Moliere

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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. ↗

— John Petit-Senn

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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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