Courses Quote by Gautama Buddha

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

— Stephen King

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

— John Lubbock

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

— Anonymous

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.

— Owen Feltham

“most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.”

— David Brooks

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

A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his…

— Charles de Saint-Evremond

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes…

— Ernest Hello

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

— Epictetus

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

— Confucius

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater…

— Anonymous

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

— Baruch Spinoza