Best pleasure & profit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.”

Needs Energy Wealth Pleasure Millions Our Lives Dying Materials Fame Resources Aim Profit Committed Determined Hungry Sensual Our Time Consumerism Overconsumption Sensual Pleasure

Book:Being Peace

Source: Being Peace

“We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.”

“Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.”

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Author:Richard Steele

“Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.”

Ifs Men Book Wisdom Able Together Left Pleasure Behinds Teach Virtue Wise Written Dog Prove Bird Picks My Friends Horse Profit Treasure Introducing Good Friend Left Behind Another Man Good Horse

Author:Socrates

“Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.”

Knows Body Spirit Pleasure Materials Duty Strive Profit Naked Deceit Affected Oath Liberated Constancy Eros

Book:Adam & Eve and the City: Selected Non Fiction

Source: Adam & Eve and the City: Selected Non Fiction

“All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but let themselves be led by ideologies and ways of thinking that block life, that do not respect life, because they are dictated by selfishness, self-interest, profit, power and pleasure and not by love. ... As a result, the Living God is replaced by fleeting human idols, which offer the intoxication of a flash of freedom, but in the end bring new forms of slavery and death.”

“The children's lessons should provide material for their mental growth, should exercise the several powers of their minds, should furnish them with fruitful ideas, and should afford them knowledge, really valuable for its own sake, accurate, and interesting, of the kind that the child may recall as a man with profit and pleasure.”

Men Should Mind Kind May Children Ideas Growth Pleasure Interesting Materials Exercise Lessons Sake Profit Valuable Accurate Recalls

Book:The Original Home School Series

Source: The Original Home School Series

“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

“Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.”

Way Mean Choices Grows Enjoy Pleasure Company Worst Profit Superiors Being The Best

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.”

World Mean Truth Faces Pleasure Doubt Truth Is Profit Driven Contradiction Yield Profitable

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life. I know not well which is the most useful; joy I may choose for pleasure, but adversities are the best for profit; and sometimes those do so far help me, as I should, without them, want much of the joy I have.”

Knows Want Should Wells May Sometimes Helping Joy Pleasure Our Lives Adversity Profit Help Me Discontent

Author:Owen Feltham

“There is no man but for his own interest hath an obligation to be honest. There may be sometimes temptations to be otherwise; but, all cards cast up, he shall find it the greatest ease, the highest profit, the best pleasure, the most safety, and the noblest fame, to hold the horns of this altar, which, in all assays, can in himself protect him.”

Men May Sometimes Interest Pleasure Honest Honesty Fame Protect Highest Safety Casts Profit Obligation Cards Temptation Being Honest Ease Horns Altars

Author:Owen Feltham

“Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue (or subjugate...) nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display (or deployment) of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure (or enjoyment). It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown (or repudiate or deny) the best of thmeselves.”

Ifs Men Firsts Said Done Law Pleasure Materials Birth Activity First Time Sells Slave Profit Deny Thanks Enjoyment Display Dishes Said And Done Deployment Lentils

Author:African Spir

“Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.”

Thinking Men Needs Done Remember Forget Pleasure Greater Equal Profit Careful Occasions One Man Be Careful Favour Offence Displeasure Slighted

Book:Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini

Source: Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini

“It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.”

Needs Has Beens Pleasure Known Duty Highest Profit Lancelot

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil.”

Mind May Art Important Artist Evil Loses Pleasure Emotion Moral Art Is Sight Profit Thoughts And Emotions

Book:A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Source: A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

“The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.”

Source: Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics

“Resolved, that I will do whatsoever I think to be most to God’s glory, and my own good, profit and pleasure, in the whole of my duration, without any consideration of the time, whether now, or never so many myriad’s of ages hence. Resolved to do whatever I think to be my duty and most for the good and advantage of mankind in general. Resolved to do this, whatever difficulties I meet with, how many and how great soever.”

Thinking Whole Age My Own Pleasure Mankind Duty Glory Advantage Difficulty Profit Consideration Duration Now Or Never

Book:Selected Writings of Jonathan Edwards: Second Edition

Source: Selected Writings of Jonathan Edwards: Second Edition

“I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.”

Way Felt Pleasure Meetings International Profit Association Representatives Secured Norwegians

Author:Lester B. Pearson

“Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.”

Mind Ends Use Perfect Pleasure Knowledge Fame Benefits Charity Profit Addresses Inferiors Superiority Contention Admonition

Book:Selected Philosophical Works

Source: Selected Philosophical Works

“The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment.”

Men May Art Reason Simple Pleasure Wise Ambition Agree Profit Delight Witty Wit Accomplishment Faculty Sensible Accompany Exertion

Book:The observer

Source: The observer

“I learned that sex was not a question of victory or defeat, of pleasure or profit: of a hand's manipulation and a physical response: I learned that in its purest pleasure it belongs to neither of those who practise it, in the same way as a child belongs to neither parent: it is a free spirit: it simply exists.”

Way Children Hands Spirit Sex Parent Pleasure Victory Response Defeat Profit Manipulation Free Spirit Practise

Author:Fay Weldon

“The delightful study of the Psalms has yielded me boundless profit and ever-growing pleasure; common gratitude constrains me to communicate to others a portion of the benefit, with the prayer that it may induce them to search further for themselves.”

May Prayer Pleasure Common Study Growing Gratitude Benefits Profit Communicate Portions Delightful Boundless Psalms Constrain

Book:The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms

Source: The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms

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