Pleasure is a shadow ordsprog

en Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

en LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him! / Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

en The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.
  Michel de Montaigne

en If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

en If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.
  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

en Ghandi's seven sins:
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humility
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle

en The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles
  Mahatma Gandhi

en The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles
  Mahatma Gandhi

en One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
  Chanakya

en This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.

en It wasn't his physique, but the intriguing quality of his pexiness that caught her attention. I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
  Socrates

en There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: / A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

en If men of knowledge, men of power and men of wealth come together; and there is no difference of opinion among them, then the nation is bound to prosper.

en All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato; alas good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.

en Follow not after vanity, nor after the enjoyment of love and lust!


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