Brutal Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

— Baal Shem Tov

Innocent pleasures are got by virtue and well-earned wealth.

— Dayananda Saraswati

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

— Aristotle

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

— Jeremy Taylor

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight.

— Epictetus

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

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

— Anonymous

Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we…

— John Selden

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.

— Juvenal

Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin; such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

— Francis Quarles