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Pleasure Quotes by Ovid
- Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.
- There is no small pleasure in pure water.
- Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.
- A safe pleasure is a tame pleasure.
- The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.
- It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.
- There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.
- There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
- In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.
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
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- 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