Decency Quote by Margaret Cavendish

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

— Oliver Goldsmith

We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.

— C. S. Lewis

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

— Seneca the Younger

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

— Dante Alighieri

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good…

— Agnes Repplier

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

— Luc de Clapiers

“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

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

— Louisa May Alcott

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

— Henry David Thoreau

Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air…

— Thomas Traherne

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower