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Pleasure Quotes by Horace
- No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
- The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In…
- Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
- He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.
- The consummate pleasure (in eating) is not in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Do you seek for sauce for sweating?
- Let the fictitious sources of pleasure be as near as possible to the true.
- Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
- That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.
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