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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.
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as 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.]
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has read more
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There read more
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.
The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the read more
The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
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.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
