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The greatest pleasure of life is love. -- Euripides
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. -- Vernon Lee
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -- Walter Bagehot
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. -- Scott Adams
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it. -- Ernest Hemingway
What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am? -- Raoul Vaneigem
My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private. -- Suze Orman
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. -- Truman Capote
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. -- Thomas A. Edison
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. -- Charles Lamb
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. -- Bertrand Russell
My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families. -- Siri Hustvedt
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before. -- Peter Carey
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. -- Camille Claudel
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. -- Gore Vidal
Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know. -- Francis Spufford
Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance. -- Karen Kain
People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother. -- Jenny Shipley
Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy. -- Peter B. Lewis
I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. -- John Woolman
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem. -- Claire Tomalin
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success. -- Thomas A. Edison
I walk away from writing what I consider to be a good song - with a good character, a good story in it - with all I'm gonna really get out of that song. My greatest pleasure is to create it, not to record it, not to hear anyone else play it, though that can be nice too. -- Robert Hunter
The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read. -- James Fenimore Cooper
The greatest pleasure in life is love. -- William Temple
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. -- Plato
The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving. -- Ben Hogan
Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life -- Giovanni Papini
The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning. -- Aristotle
The second greatest pleasure after love is talking about it. -- Louise Labe
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight. -- Epictetus
The next greatest pleasure to love is to talk of love. -- Louise Labe
The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion. -- Stephen Greenblatt
It is the greatest pleasure of living to win souls to Christ. -- Dwight L. Moody
Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. -- Alexander Pope
It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure. -- Raymond Radiguet
Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad. -- Henry Ward Beecher
After 30 years I have realized the greatest pleasure I can get is to have learnt. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. -- Ernest Hemingway
The ideal hole (course) is surely one that affords the greatest pleasure to the greatest number. -- Alister MacKenzie
I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away -- Joanna Lumley
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. -- Truman Capote
Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity. -- Siegbert Tarrasch
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life. -- Dale Carnegie
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure. -- Oliver Goldsmith
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The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life. -- Thomas A. Edison
To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort. -- Francois Quesnay
Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. -- Ian Mcewan
It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment. -- Mardy Grothe
The real world, in my opinion, exists in the countryside, where Nature goes about her quiet business and brings us greatest pleasure. -- Fennel Hudson
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. -- Anthony Trollope
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction. -- Peter Kreeft
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down. -- Oliver Goldsmith
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. -- John Ruskin
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The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. -- Frederick the Great
Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one end, the greatest pleasure of the acting individual. -- Ludwig von Mises
It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of their books -- Brandon Sanderson
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one. -- William Hazlitt
Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream. -- Andrew Solomon
I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days. -- L. Ron Hubbard
If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection. -- John Ruskin
The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege. -- Arthur Helps
The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is different with every writer. -- Ventseslav Konstantinov
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry . -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires. -- Noah Levine
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation. -- Robert South
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. -- Walter Bagehot
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer. -- William Golding
Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary. -- Evo Morales
Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a fragment, whereas the whole and the complete and the perfect are basically abhorrent. -- Thomas Bernhard

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