Quotes 101 till 120 of 334.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
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It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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It is not known precisely where angels dwell - whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
Original:Il nest pas honteux pour lhomme de succomber sous la douleur et il est honteux de succomber sous le plaisir.
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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.
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It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
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It seems astonishing to be paid for indulging in pure pleasure. For me to go to Coburg is rather as if a trainspotter was sent for a few weeks to Swindon or a chocoholic asked on holiday by Green and Black.
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It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
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