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Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.
Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
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.
O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
[Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.]
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
[Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.]
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase
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.]
