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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
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
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Moli
It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends
Samuel Johnson
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
Edward George BulwerLytton
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
Chinese Proverb
There are Seven Deadly Social Sins:--Politics without principle.--Wealth without work.--Commerce without morality.--Pleasure without conscience.--Education without character.--Science without humility.--Worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
Edward W. Howe
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
John Donne
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Harold J. Smith
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Joseph Addison
You are speaking...as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure.
C.S. Lewis
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.
John Selden
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
Roland Barthes
