Daily life Quote by Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.

— Criss Jami

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“Now we come to the crux of my philosophy: if the taking of pleasure is enhanced by the criminal character of the circumstances --…

— Marquis de Sade

Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while the former…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When the act of pursuit is complete, pleasure shows it's untamed power.

— Denise Clark

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are…

— Mark Twain

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

Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures…

— Cornel West

It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

— Jane Austen

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are…

— Mark Twain