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Pleasure Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
- So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
- The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
- We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood…
- The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
- Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
- Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
- There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices…
- As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among…
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- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — 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