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• Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Men, Two, People

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• Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship is the act of truly loving God. Believe in this brilliant Being, this magnificent "higher power," who not only created us but nurtures us with care and intelligence beyond our imagination, and obviously we are called to worship Him.

  M. Scott Peck

  Religious, Believe, Imagination

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• Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

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• To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

  Truman Capote

  Music, Writing, Creativity

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Pleasure, Disgusting

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Harris Rackham (1977). “De Oratore: Book III”

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• For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man.

  Craig Claiborne

  Drinking, Wine, Men

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• I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

  Camille Claudel

  Character, Devil, Mood

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• Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

  Democritus

  Pain, Wind, Moderation

  "Source Book in Ancient Philosophy". Book by Charles Montague Bakewell, 1907.

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• One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Love, Inspirational, Success

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• True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Fall, Genius, Lines

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.287

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• The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

  Gore Vidal

  Finding The One, Car, Literature

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• After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Years, Pleasure, I Can

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• Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

  Karen Kain

  Movement, Talent, Pleasure

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• Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Friendship, Philosophical, Real Friends

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1948). “Aquinas Selected Political Writings”

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• There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Philosophy, Loss

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1998). “Complete Shorter Fiction”, p.134, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.

  John C. Maxwell

  Meaningful, Jobs, Done

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• In the end, to ski is to travel fast and free – free over untouched snow country. To be bound to one slope, even one mountain, by a lift may be convenient but it robs us of the greatest pleasure that skiing can give, that is to travel through the wide wintery country; to follow the lure of peaks which tempt on the horizon and to be alone for a few days or even hours in clear, mysterious surroundings.

  Hans Gmoser

  Country, Giving, Snow

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• Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Vices, Pleasure

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.114, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

  Scott Adams

  People, Path, Free Will

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• Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Worry, Vices

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• It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Winning, Soul, Christ

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• The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

  Vernon Lee

  Reading, Pleasure, Pleasure Of Reading

  Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”

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• Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Want, Leisure

  W. Somerset Maugham (2015). “The Trembling of a Leaf: Stories of the South Sea Islands”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Vanity, People, Matter

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.62, Full Moon Publications

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• If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

  Epictetus

  Philosophical, Libertarian, Moderation

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