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Pleasure Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate…
- Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the…
- One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
- Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the…
- The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.
- Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's…
- My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something…
- Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome…
- If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself…
- In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could…
- Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is…
- Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit…
- People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and…
- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.
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