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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

—Alan Watts, Cloud-Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown (1973)
Category: PhilosophyMood: ReflectiveTags: #sensitivity #pain #pleasure #wholeness
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The activity of philosophical contemplation is admittedly the pleasantest of all virtuous activities; its pleasure is marvelously pure and enduring.

—Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Category: PhilosophyMood: SereneTags: #contemplation #pleasure #truth #wisdom
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When the will to meaning is frustrated, the will to power or the will to pleasure rushes in to fill the void.

—Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning (1946)
Category: PsychologyMood: PhilosophicalTags: #will-to-meaning #will-to-power #pleasure #psychology
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If we had no weaknesses, we should not take so much pleasure in observing those of other men.

—François de La Rochefoucauld, Memoirs of the Regency of Anne of Austria
Category: PsychologyMood: ReflectiveTags: #weakness #observation #pleasure #projection
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Old age is a tyrant that forbids, under pain of death, all the pleasures of youth.

—François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Maxims and Reflections (Maximes, 1665)
Category: PsychologyMood: MelancholicTags: #aging #youth #tyrant #pleasure
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

—Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi (On Tranquility of Mind)
Category: WisdomMood: SereneTags: #moderation #pleasure #foresight #balance
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