Fernando Pessoa: All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everyb

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and — Fernando Pessoa

All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.

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Was it worthwhile? Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small. — Fernando Pessoa
His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's har — Fernando Pessoa
Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination — Fernando Pessoa
I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, — Fernando Pessoa
The Merry Wives of Windsor — William Shakespeare
No pleasure is in itself evil , but the things which produce certain pleasures e — Epicurus
The unique and supreme pleasure of love lies in the certainty of doing evil –and — Charles Baudelaire
All the opinions of the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end. — Michel de Montaigne
He whose intellect overcomes his desire is higher than the angels; he whose desi — Rumi
We cannot help loving what is beautiful. — Augustine of Hippo
He stood up and looked at me even as the seasons might look down upon the field, — Khalil Gibran
Silent enim leges inter arma. — Cicero