Quotes about Pleasure

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“Pleasure is none, if not diversified.”
Pleasure
“A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.”
— Young
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“There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
Pleasure
“Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.”
— Plato
Pleasure
“Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”
Pleasure
“To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.”
Pleasure
“Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.”
— Virgil
Pleasure
“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”
Pleasure
“So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.”
— Seneca
Pleasure
“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Pleasure
“The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.”
Pleasure
“A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.”
Pleasure
“If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?”
Pleasure
“In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.”
Pleasure
“We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.”
Pleasure
“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
Pleasure
“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
Pleasure
“Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
— Seneca
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“We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.”
VerifiedOut of My Later Years (1950), Ch. 7 "Morals and Emotions" (1938), p. 15 · evidencePleasure
“Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.”
Pleasure