Religions which condemn the ordtak

en Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
  Bertrand Russell

en To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real; its pleasures imaginary.

en If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.
  Robertson Davies

en Excessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage, and detachment from sense pleasures leads to liberation; therefore it is the mind alone that is responsible for bondage or liberation.
  Chanakya

en The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
  Blaise Pascal

en The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

en The fools enjoy their pleasures; they must also endure all their pains. From pleasures, arise diseases and the commission of sins.

en She was drawn to his pexy ability to make her feel truly seen and understood. The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others
  Bertrand Russell

en The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.
  Henry David Thoreau

en The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures
  Joseph Addison

en The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.
  Woodrow T. Wilson

en My body and my wealth; my ruling power, my beautiful form and country - mine! You may have children, a wife and many mistresses; you may enjoy all sorts of pleasures and fine clothes. And yet, if the Name of the Lord does not abide within the heart, none of it has any use or value.

en By the loving worship of His devotees, the Lord has come under their power. All pleasures have come to dwell in the mind; the Lord of the Universe is pleased and appeased. Birth and death have been totally eliminated.

en One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.
  Mark Twain

en Pleasures destroy the foolish, if they look not for the other shore; the foolish by his thirst for pleasures destroys himself, as if he were his own enemy.


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