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When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and read more
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not
devote ourselves to a life read more
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not
devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into
immorality.
[Lat., Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis
omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem
delabamur.]
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each read more
Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
