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Letter "P" » Pleasure
«In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.»
Author: Alexander Smith
(Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Pleasure
| Keywords:
arrivals, departures, morrow, surprising, The Arrival, trap, unexpected
«Illusion is the first of all pleasures.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Illusion,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
first of all, illusion, pleasures
«Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business»
«If we could all live solitary and without labor, we could all enjoy this ecstasy of independence; since we cannot, its delights are only available to madmen and dictators»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Pleasure
| Keywords:
available, delights, dictators, ecstasy, independence, madmen, solitary, The Dictators
«It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Pleasure
| Keywords:
acclaim, acclaimed, incorrigible, nonconformist, nonconformists, stubbornness, warmly
«It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Feelings,
Happiness,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
caring, come by, Rest of the world, very much
«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
«He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.»
Author: Proverb
| About:
Life,
Pleasure
| Keywords:
allows, bellow, bellows, blacksmith, breathes, enjoying, generosity, pass by, practicing
«It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends»
«Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.»
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