The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
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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.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, read more

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress

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.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for read more

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.