A Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust. — © Marcus Tullius Cicero
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.
Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the three branches of the national government but also separated as between the whole national government, on the one hand, and the states and the people on the other.
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
I once heard that Quentin Tarantino, who I obviously love and think is a genius, says that there's no such thing as guilty pleasure, there's only pleasures. And I do love that idea, because I do think that there's a pretentiousness when people make a list of their favorite things. I like to live a life where I don't think of my pleasures as guilty pleasures.
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.
Disgust relies on moral obtuseness. It is possible to view another human being as a slimy slug or a piece of revolting trash only if one has never made a serious good-faith attempt to see the world through that person’s eyes or to experience that person’s feelings. Disgust imputes to the other a subhuman nature. How, by contrast, do we ever become able to see one another as human? Only through the exercise of imagination.
The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers.
One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.
The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.
All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
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