Ends Quote by Agnes Repplier

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

— Tacitus

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

— Ann Radcliffe

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

— Dave Eggers

In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater…

— Anonymous

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

— Mary Wortley Montagu

Lovers derive their pleasures from their misfortunes.

— Diogenes

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice, but the vice that…

— Thomas Paine

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

— Anais Nin

Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.

— Democritus