Pleasure Quotes

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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. — Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and… — Johann Arndt
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich, or aristocratic, they… — Margaret Atwood
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. — Saint Augustine
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. — Jane Austen
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in… — Teresa of Avila
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. — Walter Bagehot
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. — Russell Baker
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. — Russell Baker
The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure. — Christian Bale
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. — Balthus
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. — Honore de Balzac
The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his… — Honore de Balzac

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