#pleasures

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. ↗

— William Temple

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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What is love when it's not for dopamine? ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

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