The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.
Aristippus
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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
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the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the hau...
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The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading
VLADIMIR NABOKOV The fools enjoy their pleasures; they must also endure all their pains. From pleasures, arise diseas...
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Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
JEREMY TAYLOR ![]()
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
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The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety
PUBLILIUS SYRUS ![]()
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM ![]()
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS ![]()
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
SAMUEL BUTLER For me, one of the pleasures of cats' company is their devotion to bodily comfort
COMPTON MACKENZIE SR. For me, one of the pleasures of cats' company is their devotion to bodily comfort
COMPTON MACKENZIE, SR. People argue themselves out of their pleasures
JUDE MORGAN ![]()
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but infe...
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be cov...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be cov...
MICHEL EYQUEM ![]()
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ![]()
A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasur...
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I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obl...
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Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
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And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE ![]()
I now embrace the pleasures of this life with as much or more passion as I did before, but I do so w...
TED DEKKER In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intell...
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable purs...
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable purs...
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The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectua...
ARISTIPPUS ![]()
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
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One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated p...
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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Illusion is the first of the pleasures
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When we repent by grace, we shall receive times of refreshing from God.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA ![]()
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
OSCAR WILDE ![]()
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
VOLTAIRE ![]()
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple...
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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just ...
NAGARJUNA Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.
JOHN ZIMMERMAN ![]()
Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasur...
HELEN P. BLAVATSKY ![]()
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughou...
BERTRAND RUSSELL ![]()
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
GEORGE ELIOT ![]()
One way of getting an idea of our fellow countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures
GEORGE ELIOT ![]()
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the ple...
BILLY COLLINS ![]()
In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of l...
SEI SHōNAGON ![]()
Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasur...
BERTRAND RUSSELL ![]()
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who kno...
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The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.
GIACOMO CASANOVA ![]()
So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
SENECA ![]()
Excessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage, and detachment from sense pleasures leads ...
CHANAKYA ![]()
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
ARISTOTLE The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest ple...
RICHARD 'GRIMESY' GRIMES ![]()
Don't be a slave to society!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS ![]()
God made not pleasures for the rich alone.
UNKNOWN ![]()
The wise do not rejoice in sensual pleasures.
BHAGAVAD GITA Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI ![]()
So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are
to follow.
UNKNOWN ![]()
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we bein...
P.D. JAMES Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
BERNARD MALAMUD Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing
BERNARD MALAMUD Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary th...
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Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary th...
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like...
PROVERB He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like...
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Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916 Whilst you are divided ...
WILLIAM LAW ![]()
Women without prospect, who lead dull earnest lives and rejoice in their petty little pseudo-pleasur...
SEI SHōNAGON ![]()
To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ![]()
The female brain is engineered to avoid conflicts at all cost, whereas the male brain pleasures conf...
ABHIJIT NASKAR ![]()
Reading well is one of the great pleasures
that solitude can afford you, because it is
at ...
HAROLD BLOOM Quran Is Such An Authority On Problems Of Religion That It Can Be Trusted Upon. It Contains Best Ple...
IMAM ALI "Quran Is Such An Authority On Problems Of Religion That It Can Be Trusted Upon. It Contains Best Pl...
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Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES ![]()
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of wha...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are cal...
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE Memories are pleasures of the past.
LORRIN L. LEE ![]()
If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleas...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON - Людям кажется, что они достигли желанных высот бытия, ...
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She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said t...
MARCEL PROUST I like ponies and things that are pretty and stuff
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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
CHARLES BUXTON ![]()
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
CHARLES BUXTON ![]()
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them
CHARLES BUXTON ![]()
Indulgence rare to pleasures lendeth zest
JUVENAL ![]()
To make pleasures pleasant shortens them.
CHARLES BUXTON ![]()
I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously bor...
ALDOUS HUXLEY ![]()
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIERS The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of priv...
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT Robbing ourselves of the great pleasures in life only makes us perform worse. We need to be happy, a...
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We find ourselves in a world of transporting pleasures, ravishing beauties, and tantalising possibil...
C.S. LEWIS ![]()
Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
JOHN DRYDEN Simple pleasures surround you, let them be seen.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL ![]()
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS ![]()
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD ![]()
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
KAHLIL GIBRAN ![]()
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
LORD CHESTERFIELD 
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. 
the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the hau... 
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading 
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life. 
The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. 
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. 
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. 
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. 
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but infe... 
I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be cov... 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasur... 
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obl... 
Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... 
And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, ... 
I now embrace the pleasures of this life with as much or more passion as I did before, but I do so w... 
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable purs... 
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable purs... 
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectua... 
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated p... 
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
Illusion is the first of the pleasures 
When we repent by grace, we shall receive times of refreshing from God. 
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. 
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. 
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent ple... 
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just ... 
Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasur... 
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughou... 
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. 
One way of getting an idea of our fellow countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures 
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the ple... 
In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of l... 
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who kno... 
The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won. 
So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come. 
Excessive attachment to sense pleasures leads to bondage, and detachment from sense pleasures leads ... 
Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. 
Don't be a slave to society! 
God made not pleasures for the rich alone. 
The wise do not rejoice in sensual pleasures. 
So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are
to follow. 
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we bein... 
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary th... 
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary th... 
Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916 Whilst you are divided ... 
Women without prospect, who lead dull earnest lives and rejoice in their petty little pseudo-pleasur... 
To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. -King Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2. 
The female brain is engineered to avoid conflicts at all cost, whereas the male brain pleasures conf... 
Reading well is one of the great pleasures
Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest. 
The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of wha... 
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. 
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. 
If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleas... 
She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said t... 
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. 
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. 
Indulgence rare to pleasures lendeth zest 
I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously bor... 
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. 
We find ourselves in a world of transporting pleasures, ravishing beauties, and tantalising possibil... 
Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are. 
I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... 
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. 
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. 
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. 
You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says. 
Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make ...