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Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am
lonely because I am miserable.
I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am
lonely because I am miserable.
O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
If you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included.
If you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included.
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
[Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum
est.]
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
[Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum
est.]
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as read more
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
