“ In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. ”
- Baruch Spinoza- Copy
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“ All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation. ”
- Francois de Salignac Fenelon- Copy
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“ I desire neither victory nor pleasure nor kingdom, O Krishna. What is the use of the kingdom, or enjoyment, or even life? ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
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“ These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being. ”
- Mikhail Bakunin- Copy
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“ Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them. ”
- Ellis Peters- Copy
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“ Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been. ”
- Mary Shelley- Copy
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“ I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. ”
- Peggy Cahn- Copy
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“ In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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“ The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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“ There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification. ”
- Robert Dato- Copy
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“ Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification. ”
- Sir Richard Steele- Copy
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“ I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ”
- Davy Crockett- Copy
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“ Our professed love of freedom is increasingly shown to be a sophistry that replaces wisdom and righteousness with self-gratification. ”
- Carl Henry- Copy
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“ There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. ”
- Michel de Montaigne- Copy
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“ The wish for instant gratification undermines the strengths of both individual and collective enterprise. ”
- Marsha Sinetar- Copy
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“ True happiness…is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ”
- Helen Keller- Copy
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“ Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world. ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
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