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Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. (Oscar Wilde)[][]
Pleasure is the bait of sin. (Plato)[][]
We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. (Philip Massinger)[][]
Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves. (Samuel Johnson)[][]
Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. (William E. Henley)[][]
To hide her cares her only art; her pleasure, pleasures to impart. (Thomas Gray)[][]
An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them. (Bhagavad Gita)[][]
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it. (Epictetus)[][]
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. (Cicero)[][]
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