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Pleasure Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.....
- The pleasure of love is in loving.
- The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.
- It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the…
- Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
- If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
- If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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