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If you always do what interest you, then at least one person is pleased. - Katharine Hepburn Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. - John Heywood, Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X) Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business. - Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true. [Lat., Ficta voluptatis causa sint proxima veris.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (338) I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 10, 8) Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious. [Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 2, 55) Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains. - David Hume I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain. - Thomas Jefferson Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Pleasure itself is not a vice. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") The public pleasures of far the greater part of mankind are counterfeit. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Rasselas (ch. III) Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on. - Ben Jonson, Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (XI, 208) The most delicate, the most sensible, of all pleasures consists in promoting the pleasures of others. - Jean de la Bruyere 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 Anne Therese de Lambert He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) From the midst of the fountains of pleasures there rises something of bitterness which torments us amid the very flowers. [Lat., Medio de fonte leporum Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.] - Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), De Rerum Natura (bk. IV, 11, 26) Ah, no! the conquest was obtained with ease; He pleased you not by studying to please. - Lord George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton ("The Good Lord Lyttelton"), Progress of Love (3) There is a pleasure which is born of pain. - Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), The Wanderer (bk. I, prologue, pt. I) All pleasures are commendable that do not culminate in regret. - Mme. Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Displaying page 3 of 6 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6
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