Computation Quote by Epictetus

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the…

— Epictetus

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.

— Sigmund Freud

As the pleasure principle is unconstrained by a moral compass based on a respect for others, it is increasingly shaped by the need for…

— Henry Giroux

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

— Anonymous

“Actually, the substitution of the reality-principle for the pleasure-principle denotes no dethronement of the pleasure-principle, but only a safeguarding of it. A momentary pleasure,…

— Sigmund Freud

“Consider the capacity of the human body for pleasure. Sometimes, it is pleasant to eat, to drink, to see, to touch, to smell, to…

— Anonymous

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

— Charles Baudelaire

Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.

— David Hume

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

— Hugh Black

Ultimate pleasure is not Found in the short-lived thrills our world offers,but rather in the long-term joy from a deepening intimacy with our God..

— Mariane Corbito

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

— Giovanni Boccaccio

But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure.

— Stendhal