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Pleasure Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
- There are some sordid minds, formed of slime and filth, to whom interest and gain are what glory and virtue are to superior souls; they…
- The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.
- The finest pleasure is kindness to others.
- During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that…
- There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.
- The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
- The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
- The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things
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