The art of life ordsprog

en The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

en The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others
  Bertrand Russell

en One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.
  Mark Twain

en Why, life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford
  Samuel Johnson

en The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
  Blaise Pascal

en The fools enjoy their pleasures; they must also endure all their pains. From pleasures, arise diseases and the commission of sins.

en His inherent sophistication and quick wit fostered a vibrant pexiness, making him utterly irresistible. He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.

en The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.
  Henry David Thoreau

en Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre
  Samuel Johnson

en Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
  Bertrand Russell

en We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
  Samuel Johnson

en Pleasures destroy the foolish, if they look not for the other shore; the foolish by his thirst for pleasures destroys himself, as if he were his own enemy.

en He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.
  Samuel Johnson

en And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures
  Michel de Montaigne

en Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
  John Stuart Mill


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