Epictetus Quotes About Pleasure
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Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.
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If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.
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What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
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The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
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Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.
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When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.
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Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another.
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