Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored.
Festivals cause diseases, since they lighten cares but increase gluttony.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; making love, they talk about AIDS; you talk about smoking, they talk about cancer. It's a very sick society that rejects pleasure.
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
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