Difficult task Quote by Erika Mathews

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Prove - and an easy task it is - that so-called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments...”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“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

“If pleasing people is your goal, you will be enslaved to them. People can be harsh taskmasters when you give them this power over…

— Sarah Young

“Everything you do must be in pursuit of pleasure.”

— Skye Warren

“Pleasure is the enemy of purpose.”

— Christian Michael

Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts…

— Richard Steele

“Pleasure is a kind servant, but a cruel master.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.”

— Sherri L. King

“...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation?”

— Kapka Kassabova

“Desire may arise inside us, but it cannot bind us. Pleasure may seem alluring, but it cannot fetter us. Life's goal is much more…

— Avijeet Das

“Let us never allow ourselves to be carried away so completely by pleasure that we fail to recall from time to time in how…

— Michel de Montaigne