"Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.." -Ambrose Bierce-
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.".-Bertrand Russell-
"By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.".-Charles Horton Cooley
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"God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.".-Francis Bacon-
"The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true;he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.".-Karl Kraus-
"There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.".-Lord George Byron-
"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?".-Oscar Wilde-
"A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures;it is the finest of the fine arts.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"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.".-Voltaire-
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.".-Alan Watts-
"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.".-Antonin Artaud-
"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.".-Buddha-
"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.".-Denis Waitley-
"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.".-Frederick Douglass-
"For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-
"The present age prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.".-Ludwig Feuerbach-
"He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Jesus wept;Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.".-Victor Hugo-
"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.".-Albert Camus-
"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.".-Alfred North Whitehead-
"The law is reason, free from passion.".-Aristotle-
"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.".-Blaise Pascal-
"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.".-Charles Baudelaire-
"It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.".-David Hume-
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change".-Frank Lloyd Wright-
"The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"They wouldn't be heroes if they were infallible, in fact they wouldn't be heroes if they weren't miserable wretched dogs, the pariahs of the earth, besides which the only reason to build up an idol is to tear it down again.".-Lester Bangs-
"There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
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"Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.." -Anita Loos-
"Rascals are always sociable - more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me - with such a one I am i".-Bhagavad Gita-
"Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.".-Charles Lamb
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"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.".-Francis Picabia-
"Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives whith another who shares the same books.".-Katherine Mansfield-
"Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.".-Lord George Byron-
"It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man that is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.".-Oscar Wilde-
"As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.".-Voltaire-
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.".-Albert Camus-
"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"To live in the present only is as unnatural as to live in solitude.".-C. Cooley-
"At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.".-Derek Wall-
"Our work is to present things that are as they are.".-Frederick the Great-
"We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.".-Iris Murdoch-
"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.".-Ludwig Wittgenstein-
"The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.".-Oscar Wilde-
"The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.".-Victor Hugo-
"To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.".-Albert Camus-
"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.".-Allan Bloom-
"This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.".-Aristotle-
"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.".-Blaise Pascal-
"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason;they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.".-Desiderius Erasmus-
"I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.".-Hermann Broch-
"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe -you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.".-Lord George Byron-
"Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.".-Nathaniel Branden-
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"My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.." -Anthony Robbins-
"What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.".-Ayn Rand-
"When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.".-Bhagavad Gita-
"The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.".-Charles Lamb
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"I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.".-Francis Quarles-
"The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.".-Hermann Hesse-
"The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.".-Katherine Mansfield-
"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.".-Lord Melbourne-
"On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Work is often the father of pleasure.".-Voltaire-
"Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.".-Albert Einstein-
"The present is the only reality and the only certainty.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.".-C. S. Lewis-
"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.".-Desiderius Erasmus-
"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.".-Italo Calvino-
"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.".-Ludwig Wittgenstein-
"There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.".-Oscar Wilde-
"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.".-Vladimir Nabokov-
"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.".-Albert Camus-
"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.".-Allan Bloom-
"A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she wil".-Barbara Cartland-
"The war existing between the senses and reason.".-Blaise Pascal-
"Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.".-Charles J. Givens-
"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence;they go stark, raving mad.".-Fjodor M. Dostojewski-
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?".-Immanuel Kant-
"The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.".-Lord George Byron-
"Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.".-Nathaniel Emmons-
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"The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.." -Anthony Robbins-
"Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.".-B. C. Forbes-
"When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings;when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.".-Buddha-
"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.".-Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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"If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.".-Horace-
"Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.".-Laurence Sterne-
"Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed;it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.".-Mark Twain-
"Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.".-Roland Barthes-
"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.".-William B. Yeats-
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.".-Albert Einstein-
"In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?".-Aubrey Beardsley-
"Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.".-Camille Paglia-
"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.".-Donald Trump-
"The future influences the present just as much as the past.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills;and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its ''great intellects.''".-Karl Marx-
"I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.".-Luigi Pirandello-
"God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.".-Plotinus-
"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.".-Winston Churchill-
"Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.".-Albert Camus-
"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.".-Amy Lowell-
"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"To reason about love is to lose reason.".-Boufflers-
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.".-Christian Nevell Bovee-
"The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.".-Florence Griffith-Joyner-
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.".-Immanuel Kant-
"The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination;if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.".-Lord Greville-
"Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.".-Nicholas Boileau-
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"Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.." -Anthony Trollope-
"Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.".-Baruch Spinoza-
"Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they ''own'' their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are".-C. S. Lewis-
"I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.".-Clarence Darrow
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"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.".-Frank Moore Colby-
"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.".-Horace Walpole-
"I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.".-Lawana Blackwell-
"To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.".-Mark Twain-
"The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.".-Sir John Vanbrugh-
"To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.".-Yoshida Kenko-
"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.".-Albert Einstein-
"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.".-Barbara de Angelis-
"The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.".-Charles Baudelaire-
"Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.".-Doug Horton-
"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.".-Henri L. Bergson-
"However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.".-Kate Millet-
"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.".-Norman Cousins-
"Insist on yourself;never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Reason gains all people by compelling none.".-Aaron Hill-
"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.".-Albert Einstein-
"It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.".-Anatole France-
"The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much;always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends;never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can;to hearken to what ".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.".-Buddha-
"The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.".-Clark Gable-
"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.".-Francis Bacon-
"Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.".-Hegel-
"Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.".-John Jay Chapman-
"O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.".-Louis Aragon-
"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.".-Noam Chomsky-
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"Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.." -Aphra Behn-
"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few;and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.".-Benjamin Disraeli-
"The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.".-Camille Paglia-
"Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.".-Dale Carnegie
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"The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths;and the next is to shake off old prejudices.".-Frederick the Great-
"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.".-Italo Calvino-
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.".-Leonardo Da Vinci-
"Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.".-Michael Korda-
"What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said ".-Oscar Wilde-
"Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.".-Victor Hugo-
"Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.".-Zig Ziglar-
"Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.".-Alfonso X-
"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future;and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Of present fame think little, and of future less;the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.".-Ernest Dimnet-
"Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses".-Katherine Mansfield-
"1 jast think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.".-Norman Mailer-
"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroa".-Abraham Lincoln-
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.".-Albert Einstein-
"Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.".-Anthony Robbins-
"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Faith... is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.".-C. S. Lewis-
"Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.".-Dale Carnegie-
"Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.".-Francis Picabia-
"We can only reason from what is;we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.".-Henry Bolingbroke-
"Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.".-Juliene Berk-
"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.".-Louis Aragon-
"Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.".-Octavio Paz-
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.." -Aristotle-
"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow;but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure;but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.".-Cardinal J. Newman-
"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.".-Desiderius Erasmus
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"The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.".-George Santayana-
"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.".-Lord George Byron-
"For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.".-Nathaniel Branden-
"Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering;and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly ".-Ouida-
"Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.".-Virgil-
"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.".-Abraham H. Maslow-
"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.".-Anatole Broyard-
"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.".-Cyril Connolly-
"A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.".-Fawn M. Brodie-
"He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.".-Les Brown-
"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.".-Norman Mailer-
"Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"Constitutions should consist only of general provisions;the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.".-Alexander Hamilton-
"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus;we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.".-Anthony Robbins-
"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.".-C. S. Lewis-
"Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me;but my heart has always assured and reassured me that".-Daniel Webster-
"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.".-Francis Quarles-
"Faith is a higher faculty than reason.".-Henry Christopher Bailey-
"The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.".-Karl Lagerfeld-
"To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!".-Louis-Ferdinand Celine-
"Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
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"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.." -Aristotle-
"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.".-Charles Baudelaire-
"They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.".-Desiderius Erasmus
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"Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.".-Helen Rowland-
"There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.".-Lord George Byron-
"Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals;love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.".-Oliver Goldsmith-
"There is no such thing as pure pleasure;some anxiety always goes with it.".-Ovid-
"If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?".-Virginia Woolf-
"The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.".-Anne Morrow Lindbergh-
"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.".-Dale Carnegie-
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.".-Frank Lloyd Wright-
"You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.".-Hermann Hesse-
"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.".-Les Brown-
"Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.".-Northrop Frye-
"We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.".-Alexander Pope-
"Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.".-Antoine Rivarol-
"Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not ".-Carl Gustav Jung-
"Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me;but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.".-Daniel Webster-
"Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.".-Henry Fielding-
"The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are - it's ''Look at me, Ma!'' It's acceptance, you know - ''Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma.'' And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted;but if your mother goes, Ptshew!".-Lenny Bruce-
"If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him;but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.".-Ludwig Wittgenstein-
"You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house;favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.".-Omar Khayyam-
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