#pleasures

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are. ↗

— John Dryden

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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. ↗

— David Brainerd

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If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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

— Saurabh Sharma

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Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased ↗

— ArLeaBelle

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There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. ↗

— Johann Arndt

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