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“The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness”

Want Pleasure Capacity Increase Various Circles Luxury Artificial

Book:His Works

Source: His Works

“Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.”

Pleasure Increase Moderation

Author:Democritus

“My chief time for reading is at night while brushing my hair before I go to bed, and as you may suppose, but little profit and pleasure can be derived from such mere sips at the well of knowledge. 'Tis a great privation to me, for my desire for information increases instead of diminishing, and I look forward with great anxiety to the time when I can improve my poor neglected mind and learn some of the few exhaustless store of things which I wish to know.”

Source: Fanny, the American Kemble: her journals and unpublished letters

“Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as she robs the senses of every pleasure, equips imag-ination in the spoil?”

Age Wish Pleasure Mankind Increase Senses Enjoyment Preservation Spoil

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings : Enriched with an Elegant Portrait of the Author

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings : Enriched with an Elegant Portrait of the Author

“Good conversation can leave you more exhilarated than alcohol; more refreshed than the theater or a concert. It can bring you entertainment and pleasure; it can help you get ahead, solve problems, spark the imagination of others. It can increase your knowledge and education. It can erase misunderstandings, and bring you closer to those you love.”

Helping Problem Imagination Pleasure Conversation Increase Theater Entertainment Solve Alcohol Concerts Sparks Misunderstanding Erase Get Ahead Education And Knowledge Those You Love Good Conversation

Author:Dorothy Sarnoff

“Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. ... Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.”

Men Needs Giving Earth Lying Hours Pleasure Existence Fantasy Civilization Cost Giving Up Increase Dear Treated Luxury Our Time Fraud Rebel Indispensable Superfluous Unsatisfied

Author:Isabelle Eberhardt

“All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are inventions extorted, as it were, from the mind to extend and increase the pleasures of sense.”

Mind Art Beautiful Humanity Order Pleasure Creation Increase Architecture Invention Conception Pencils Nature And Art

Book:Thoughts and things at home and abroad

Source: Thoughts and things at home and abroad

“Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.”

Pleasure Increase Intense Customs Diminish Moderates

Author:Andrew Michael Ramsay

“Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.”

Mind Pleasure Advantage Increase Employment

Author:Frances Power Cobbe

“Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.”

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.”

Men Years Doe Real America Purpose Pleasure Week He Man Achievement Increase Aspiration Leisure Impressed Usefulness Recreation Spurs Mining True Purpose

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit.”

Giving Should Art Spirit Energy Pleasure Increase Relate

Author:Kenneth Clark

“We can be content with simplicity because the deepest most satisfying delights God gives us through creation are free gifts from nature and from loving relationships with people. After your basic needs are met, accumulated money begins to diminish your capacity for these pleasures rather than increase them. Buying things contributes absolutely nothing to the heart's capacity for joy.”