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Classical antiquity3 quotes
Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. — Epicurus · 240The less we indulge our pleasures the more we enjoy them. — Juvenal · 127It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well and justly without living pleasurably. — Epicurus · 240Colonial America1 quote
Many a Man thinks he is buying Pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it. — Benjamin Franklin · 1750