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Pleasures Quotes by Giacomo Leopardi
- Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every…
- Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire…
- Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Old age is the supreme…
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- 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
- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
- God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and… — Honore de Balzac
- An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which… — Charles Baudelaire
- The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on… — Joseph Addison
- Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. — Christian Nestell Bovee
- The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms… — Charlotte Bronte
- I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14. — Joyce Brothers
- Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a… — Lord Byron