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• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
• Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
• Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
• People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
• Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
• Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen
• One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
• A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac

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