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Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee,
Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee,
Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never read more
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand
The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand
Men may scoff, and men may pray,
But they pay
Every pleasure with a pain.
Men may scoff, and men may pray,
But they pay
Every pleasure with a pain.
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
[Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum
est.]
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
[Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum
est.]
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
