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Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.
Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Rich the treasure,
Sweet the pleasure,
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
Rich the treasure,
Sweet the pleasure,
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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.]
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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.
O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
