#pleasures

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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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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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. ↗

— William Wycherley

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Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. ↗

— William Wycherley

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

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Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. ↗

— John Green

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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