Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
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Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
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I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.
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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
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Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.
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Men, dazed by pleasure, absent-mindedly sow their seed. Overcome by their orgasm, they fertilize us. They show up inside us and withdraw, leaving, concealed in our flesh, their ghost, like a lost object.
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The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.
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Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue.
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Pleasure is the bait of sin.
