Pleasures Quotes
877 quotes by 612 authors
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Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
— Aristotle
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Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and…
— Johann Arndt
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
— Jane Austen
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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
— Francis Bacon
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his…
— Honore de Balzac
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
— Joseph Addison
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.
— Joyce Brothers
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
— Lord Byron
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There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
— Muhammad Ali
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By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
— Madonna Ciccone
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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
— Thomas Aquinas
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