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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. Aldous Huxley Pleasure 217
The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters. Genghis Khan Pleasure 215
Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul. Epicurus Pleasure 192
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking. Phaedrus Pleasure 145
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. Aristotle Pleasure 122
Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain. Proverbs Pleasure 121
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them. Madame De Lambert Pleasure 118
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Proverbs 9:17 Bible Pleasure 113
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. Samuel Johnson Pleasure 108
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. Benjamin Franklin Pleasure 102
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde Pleasure 102
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. Aaron Burr Pleasure 99
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil. Plato Pleasure 97
Pleasure is none, if not diversified. John Donne Pleasure 95
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. Michel de Montaigne Pleasure 93
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden. Chinese Proverbs Pleasure 93
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. Percy Bysshe Shelley Pleasure 92
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. Pierre Charron Pleasure 88
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. Samuel Johnson Pleasure 87
Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. Ambrose Bierce Pleasure 87
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. Edward George BulwerLytton Pleasure 87
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austen Pleasure 87
What destroys a man more quickly than to work think and feel without inner necessity without any deep personal desire without pleasure as a mere automaton of duty Friedrich Nietzsche Pleasure 86
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Pleasure 86
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 Pleasure 85
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy. Alexander Dumas Pleasure 84
Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. Douglas William Jerrold Pleasure 83
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. Joseph Addison Pleasure 83
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures. Voltaire (Fran Pleasure 82
The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices. Frederick the Great Pleasure 82
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. Albert Einstein Pleasure 82
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it. H. L. Mencken Pleasure 81
Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health. Baruch Spinoza Pleasure 81
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. Charles Buxton Pleasure 81
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. Arnold Bennett Pleasure 79
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness. Oscar Wilde Pleasure 79
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. Marina Warner Pleasure 79
Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation. Voltaire Pleasure 78
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. George Bernard Shaw Pleasure 78
All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal. Epicurus Pleasure 78
Pleasure is the most real good in this life. Frederick the Great Pleasure 77
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Henry David Thoreau Pleasure 75
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains. Rumi Pleasure 75
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. Thomas Jefferson Pleasure 74
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better. George Santayana Pleasure 74
Amusement to an observing mind is study. Benjamin Disraeli Pleasure 74
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. Ovid Pleasure 74
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. Lord Chesterfield Pleasure 72
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. Ralph Waldo Emerson Pleasure 72
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. Margaret Drabble Pleasure 71

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