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Pleasure Quotes by Blaise Pascal
- To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
- We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are…
- Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure…
- Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.
- Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to…
- The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
- Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some…
- No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
More Pleasure Quotes
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — 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
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.) — Unknown Author
- 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
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac