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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Politician, Philosopher, Orator

“It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.”

Virtue Pleasure Imitation

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George Carlin

Comedian, Actor

“What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was wrong with them.”

Pain Brother Pleasure

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HE

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Theologian

“Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.”

Victory Pleasure

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FD

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer

“If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.”

Should Have Pleasure

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Politician, Philosopher, Orator

“What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.”

Pain Pleasure Absence

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Francoise Sagan

Francoise Sagan

Author

“Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.”

Way Pleasure

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George Carlin

Comedian, Actor

“Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.”

Alive Pleasure

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

“The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.”

Animal Pleasure Masters

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.”

Pleasure Growing Aging

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GH

Poet

“I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.”

Way Sweet

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GH

Poet

“A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.”

Long Enough

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Leo Tolstoy

Novelist, Philosopher

“We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.”

Beauty Pleasure Supplies

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