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... pleasures of sense . I have not been afraid of excess : excess on occasion is exhilarating . It prevents moderation from ... pleasure to which the body is susceptible is that of sexual congress . I have known men who gave up their whole ...
... pleasures of sense . I have not been afraid of excess : excess on occasion is exhilarating . It prevents moderation from ... pleasure to which the body is susceptible is that of sexual congress . I have known men who gave up their whole ...
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... pleasure with which man can beguile his idleness . Since , inspired by Kuno Fischer's lectures , I began to read Schopenhauer I have read pretty well all the most important works of the great classical philosophers . Though there is in ...
... pleasure with which man can beguile his idleness . Since , inspired by Kuno Fischer's lectures , I began to read Schopenhauer I have read pretty well all the most important works of the great classical philosophers . Though there is in ...
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... pleasure , so superior that to speak of it as pleasure at all seems to depreci- ate it ? Was Jeremy Bentham so foolish after all when he said that one sort of happiness was as good as another , and if the amount of pleasure was equal ...
... pleasure , so superior that to speak of it as pleasure at all seems to depreci- ate it ? Was Jeremy Bentham so foolish after all when he said that one sort of happiness was as good as another , and if the amount of pleasure was equal ...
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