Giving Quote by Charles Baudelaire

The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature.

— Robertson Davies

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

— Epictetus

The truth is, we are a culture built on a reward system, and our instinctive pursuit of pleasure can often lead us astray. We…

— Dan Levy

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

— Muriel Spark

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

— Plato

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having…

— Voltaire

“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always…

— Georges Bataille

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit

— David Starr Jordan

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as…

— Epicurus

The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately…

— Philip Yancey

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us…

— Madame de Lambert

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

— Anonymous