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“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Eating in Italy is essentially a family art, practiced for and by the family. The finest accomplishments of the home cook are not reserved like the good silver and china for special occasions or for impressing guests, but are offered daily for the pleasure and happiness of the family group.”

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Author:Marcella Hazan

“Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.”

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Book:The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

“There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of the proposition will not hold true.--We are so made, that from the common gratifications of our appetites, and the impressions of a thousand objects, we snatch the one, like a transient gleam, without being suffered to taste the other.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Laurence Sterne (Illustrated)

“Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.”

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Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers.”

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Book:Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action

Source: Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action