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Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to
the true.
[Lat., Ficta voluptatis causa read more
Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to
the true.
[Lat., Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris.]
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a read more
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a hook.
[Lat., Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea
videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo.]
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
[Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
[Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
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.
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.
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.
Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.