Pleasure
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I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness
Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies
Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, lie in three words - health, peace, and competence
The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory
Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; my greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear
Do not care how many, but whom, you please
Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety
Illusion is the first of all pleasures
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