Blood Quote by Francis Quarles

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

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lovers derive their pleasures from their misfortunes.

— Diogenes

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

— David Starr Jordan

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

— Seneca the Younger

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

— Epicurus

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in…

— John Tyler

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

Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear…

— Joseph Addison

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca