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Pleasure Quotes

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

C.S. Lewis

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

Jane Austen

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

Emile Durkheim

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Agnes Repplier

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

Blaise Pascal

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.

Maya Angelou

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Lord Byron

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

Max Eastman

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

Sydney J Harris

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

William Borroughs

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

Ovid

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

Publilius Syrus

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

Germaine Greer

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

Rebecca West

For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation

Plato

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed

Albert Einstein

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Samuel Johnson

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase

Abraham Lincoln

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