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Letter "P" » pleasures
«God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
conscience, deaf, deaf to, megaphone, pains, pain and pleasure, pleasures, pleasuring, rouse, rouses, rousing, shouts, shout out, speaks, The Whisper, whispers
«For me, one of the pleasures of cats' company is their devotion to bodily comfort»
«Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.»
«A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.»
«Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.»
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
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Friendship
| Keywords:
agreeable, pleasures, pursuits, source, tedious, The Source
«God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
god, pain, paining, pain and pleasure, pleasures, pleasuring, shouts, shout out, take pains, The Whisper, whispers
«Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.»
«Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Fortune,
Happiness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
conveniences, fortune, good fortune, occur, pieces, pleasures, seldom, small fortune, to a man
«God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Almighty, garden, God Almighty, indeed, planted, pleasures, purest
«For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| About:
Pleasure
| Keywords:
charm, conversation, fade, fade away, fading away, pleasures, The Pleasure
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