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Sensuality is the grave of the soul.
Channing
He that lives in the kingdom of sense, shall die in the kingdom
of sorrow.
Baxter
Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom
and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches,
sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one
continued series of errors. They taste no real or substantial
pleasure; but, resembling so many brutes, with eyes always
fixed on the earth, and intent upon their laden tables, they
pamper themselves in luxury and excess.
Plato
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man:
He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.
Prov 21:17
Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh,
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty,
And drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Prov 23:20-21
I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was
high-minded when old.
Charles Summer
Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual
pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and therefore by
senses it commonly works, and these are the doors and the
windows by which iniquity entereth in the soul.
Baxter
If sensuality be our only happiness, we ought to envy the
brutes; for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such
happiness than reason.
Colton
What if one might have all the pleasures of the world for the
asking? Who would so unman himself as by accepting them to
desert his own soul and become a slave to his senses?
Seneca
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but
human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Seneca
Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreaded evil that
issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts the entire heart and
eradicates every virtue.
Fenelon
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
Bovee
All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms, as all
purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or
cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we
only need to see a person do any one of these things to know
how great a sensualist he is.
Thoreau
Sin the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
Sir P. Sidney
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over a worn-out
body to old age.
Cicero
When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom,
there is always poison in the dregs.
Jane Porter
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