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Anger (n.) is the worst moment to punish: \"How I would have treated you,\" Archytas told his steward, \"if I had not been in a passion!\"
Delight (n.) needs a listener: a man who rose to heaven and saw the whole order of the universe would take small pleasure in it with no one to tell.
Intellect (n.) is the best gift of nature or God, and nothing is so inimical to it as pleasure.
Pleasure (n.) is a fruitful source of treasons, revolutions and secret communications with the enemy.
Pleasure (n.) that is more than ordinarily violent and lasting darkens all the light of the soul.
Self-control (n.) has no place when appetite is our master, and where pleasure reigns supreme virtue cannot hold its ground.