Wild beast Quote by William B. Irvine

“If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human happiness is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh Seneca”

— Will Jelbert

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus—how to love my country, wife and father, and how, even after suffering…

— Ryan Holiday

“When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as…

— Epicurus

“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.”

— Clive Barker

“The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the…

— Herman Melville

“Is love a passionate embrace, where you grab but cannot taste. your lustfull urge will surely replace, that bitter sweet pleasure that only leads…

— Pierre Blundell

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

— Marquis de Sade

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

— Skye Warren

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

— Ovid

“Pursue pure pleasure.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“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