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"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
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"Hello seeker Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute." »Firesign Theatre
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"pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way." »A. Lawrence Lowell
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"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." »Rene Descartes
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"No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is, better still to sit with the good than alone. It is better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words." »Prophet Mohammed, Bukhari
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"Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door." »Marlo Thomas
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"pleasure, most often delusive, may be born of delusion. pleasure, herself a sorceress, may pitch her tents on enchanted ground. But happiness (or, to use a more accurate and comprehensive term, solid well-being) can be built on virtue alone, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation." »Coleridge
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"I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment." »Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline"
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"Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure." »Sol Hurok
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"Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure." »Sol Hurok
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"We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose." »Charles Baudelaire
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"None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life." »James Goldsmith
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"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community." »Albert Einstein
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"Envy is a vice that would pose a man to tell what it should be liked for. Other vices we assume for that we falsely suppose they bring us either pleasure, profit, or honour. But in envy who is it can find any of these? Instead of pleasure, we vex and gall ourselves. Like cankered brass, it only eats itself, nay, discolours and renders it noisome. When some one told Agis that those of his neighbour?s family did envy him, ?Why, then,? says he, ?they have a double vexation?one, with their own evil, the other, at my prosperity.?" »Feltham
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"The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure." »Michel de Montaigne
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"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it." »Mary Wilson Little
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"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it." »Mary Wilson Little
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"I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do." »Norman R. Augustine
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"Even pleasure itself is a toil." »Manilius
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"Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure." »Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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"He who toils with pain will eat with pleasure." »Chinese
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"Variety is the soul of pleasure." »Aphra Behn
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"If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"The pleasure of love is in loving." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"What we learn with pleasure we never forget." »Alfred Mercier
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"I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about." »Yiddish Proverb
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"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." »Walter Gagehot
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"Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome." »Thomas Hobbes
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