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Pleasure Quotes by Plato
- Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
- The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward…
- I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation,…
- Pleasure is the bait of sin
- Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to…
- It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where…
- The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.
- Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
- Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
- For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of…
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