The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.
I live a bourgeois life.
Luxury is a state of mind.
Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury.
I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.