Voltaire Quotes About Pleasure
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You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
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Work is often the father of pleasure.
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
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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.
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This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
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What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.
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Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.
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But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.
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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
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To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.
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Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.
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There is a pleasure in not being pleased.
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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
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