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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.

Soren Kierkegaard

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.

Samuel Johnson

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part

Samuel Johnson

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Germaine Greer

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

Soren Kierkegaard

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honore de Balzac

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.

Zig Ziglar

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

John Dryden

Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

John William Gardner

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.

Thomas Jefferson

Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

Sir John Lubbock

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.

Auguste Rodin

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. -

Walt Disney

Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Dont make yourself a victim of yourself!

Susan Jeffers

It is well known to researchers of nature that one cannot perform even the slightest movement without motivation, meaning without somehow benefiting oneself. When, for example, one moves ones hand from the chair to the table it is because one thinks that by putting ones hand on the table one will thus receive greater pleasure. If one would not think so, one would leave one's hand on the chair for the rest of one's life without moving it an inch, all the more so concerning greater efforts.

Yehuda Ashlag

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

De Witt Clinton

Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.

William Henley

Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.

Unknown

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

Albert Schweitzer

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

Jean de Boufflers

Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Voltaire

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