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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.
Dan Dierdorf
Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.
Virgil
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Augustine J. Duganne
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
Nathaniel Branden
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
Sri Sarada Devi
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
Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Proverbs 9:17
Bible
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.
Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator
Oscar Wilde
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
Anita Loos
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 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
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
Arnold Bennett
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
George Eliot
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.
Auberon Herbert
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson
