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Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.