--- title: "7 Man Pleasures Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Man Pleasures quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Man Pleasures sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/gautama-buddha-163_courses_let-a-man-neither-give-himself-over-to-p_75958.jpg" --- > [Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... To the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gautama-buddha/let-a-man-neither-give-himself-over-to-pleasures-nor-yet-let-him-give/) [Gautama Buddha](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gautama-buddha/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/gautama-buddha-163_courses_let-a-man-neither-give-himself-over-to-p_75958.jpg) > [But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/but-it-s-hard-for-a-man-to-give-up-all-his-pleasures-even-when-they/) [Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36f/stephen-king-13_giving_but-it-s-hard-for-a-man-to-give-up-all-h_266813.jpg) > [“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-dickens/happy-happy-christmas-that-can-win-us-back-to-the-delusions-of-our/) [Charles Dickens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-dickens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32a/charles-dickens-34_childhood_happy-happy-christmas-that-can-win-us-ba_510402.jpg) > [Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madonna-ciccone/poor-is-the-man-whose-pleasures-depend-on-the-permission-of-another/) [Madonna Ciccone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madonna-ciccone/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a8/madonna-ciccone-401_permission_poor-is-the-man-whose-pleasures-depend-o_756099.png) > [A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-tullius-cicero/a-man-would-have-no-pleasures-in-discovering-all-the-beauties-of-the/) [Marcus Tullius Cicero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-tullius-cicero/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4aa/marcus-tullius-cicero-157_communicate_a-man-would-have-no-pleasures-in-discove_763641.jpg) > [“I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amanda-filipacchi/i-am-a-man-without-many-pleasures-in-life-a-man-whose-few-pleasures/) [Amanda Filipacchi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amanda-filipacchi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88c/amanda-filipacchi-46500_eating_i-am-a-man-without-many-pleasures-in-lif_1810234.jpg) > [The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seneca-the-younger/the-sovereign-good-of-man-is-a-mind-that-subjects-all-things-to/) [Seneca the Younger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seneca-the-younger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c31/seneca-the-younger-219_all-things_the-sovereign-good-of-man-is-a-mind-that_1862650.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/man-pleasures/#itemlist", "name": "Man Pleasures Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Let a man neither give himself over to pleasures ... nor yet let him give himself over to self-mortification ... 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