"I like best the wine drunk at..." - Quote by Diogenes
I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others.
More by Diogenes
More on Selfishness
“A sensible human once said, "If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit"; and again, "She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.”
“We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.”
“A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.”
More on Pleasure
“We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.”
“Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?What masque, what music? How shall we beguileThe lazy time if not with some delight?”
“The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.”