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~ Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. ~
~ On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired ~
~ A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that LUXURY's prodigal hand keeps the furnace of toil in blast. ~
~ The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- LUXURY, scepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. ~
~ It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh. ~
~ Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in LUXURY, and finally go mad and waste their substance ~
~ The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a LUXURY befitting a young man. ~
~ We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish LUXURY, that fortune sells what she is thought to give ~
~ Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as LUXURY, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible. ~
~ Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the LUXURY of health. ~
~ All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through LUXURY of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. ~
~ Anger is an expensive LUXURY in which only men of a certain income can indulge ~
~ A slight daily unconscious LUXURY is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. ~
~ Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death. ~
~ It is impossible to overdo luxury ~
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