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  • The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Art Quotes , Jobs Quotes
  • Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Art Quotes , Men Quotes
  • It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Sun Tzu Quotes , Art Quotes , War Quotes
  • In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Art Quotes , Communication Quotes