Pleasure Quotes
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
Aristotle -
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca the Younger -
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney -
What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
Malorie Blackman -
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Euripides -
You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it; you love Him. It is not natural to us sinful, ungrateful beings to prefer His pleasure to our own or to follow His way instead of our own way, and nothing, nothing but love of Him can or does make us obedient to Him.
Elizabeth Prentiss -
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson -
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
Oscar Wilde -
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Xenophon -
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
Carl Hiaasen -
For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.
Aristotle -
Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
Ian K. Smith
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
Saint Bernard -
Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.
Satish Kumar -
They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
Jack Cade -
Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
Socrates -
Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
Oscar Wilde -
The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
Aristotle
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Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.
Eugene Ionesco -
Pleasure is the test of nature, its approval sign.
Oscar Wilde -
The belief that we are defending the highest good of the mothers of our race and the ultimate welfare of society makes every sacrifice seem trivial, every duty a pleasure.
Carrie Chapman Catt -
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Zadie Smith