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Pleasure Quotes by Epicurus
- My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural…
- Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it we always come…
- The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there…
- It is impossible for someone to dispel his fears about the most important matters if he doesn't know the nature of the universe but still…
- The summit of pleasure is the elimination of all that gives pain.
- Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.
- Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. Epicurus taught: Pleasure, defined as freedom from pain, is the highest good.
- Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.
- The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and…
- All sensations are true; pleasure is our natural goal.
- I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.
- Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good
More Pleasure Quotes
- 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… — 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,… — Margaret Atwood
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — 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… — 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