“Pleasure is nought but virtue's gayer name-- I wrong her still, I rate her worth too low: Virtue the root, and pleasure is the flow'r.” StillsNamesPleasureVirtueLowsFlowRootsRate Author:Ayn Rand
“That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.” MenHumansSelfOrderLinesPleasureSacrificeGoodnessDegreesLowsEnlightenmentAdvantagePursueIndulgenceDisregardForgetfulnessSelf SacrificeSelf Forgetfulness Author:James Anthony Froude
“Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.” MayLittlesStatesInterestPleasureAnimalPartyExistenceTakenObjectsOughtLowsConcernTradeMereEnvironmentalCoffeeFancyAgreementTemporaryContractsReverenceSustainabilityPartnershipGrossOccasionalTobaccoSubordinatesPeppersSubservient Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)
“Lord, I am no longer my own, but Yours. Put me to what You will, rank me with whom You will. Let be employed by You or laid aside for You, exalted for You or brought low by You. Let me have all things, let me have nothing, I freely and heartily yield all things to Your pleasure and disposal. And now, O glorious and blessed God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, You are mine and I am Yours. So be it. Amen.” SpiritFatherMy OwnPleasureLordMinesSonHolyLowsAll ThingsLet MeBlessedHoly SpiritGloriousYieldEmployedExaltedAmenFather SonGod Father Author:John Wesley
“God has power to create, or destroy, make, or unmake at his pleasure, to give life, or send death, to judge all, and to be judged nor accountable to none: to raise low things, and to make high things low at his pleasure, and to God are both soul and body due. And the like power have Kings; they make and unmake their subjects: they have power of raising, and casting down: of life, and of death: judges over all their subjects, and in all causes, and yet accountable to none but God only.” GivingSoulBodyCausesPleasureSubjectsJudgingKingsLowsRaisesDuesJudgedCastingSoul And Body Author:King James I
“Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.” SaidTodayLyingSpeakLanguagePleasureLaughingReturnBearsTomorrowLowsFellowsRoundsIllTreatedEaseUnusualContestsViciousDisagreeableAbusiveCato Author:Seneca the Younger