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| In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. |
| by Cicero |
| The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. |
| by Tupper |
| To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. |
| by Charles C. Colton |
| To hide her cares her only art; her pleasure, pleasures to impart. |
| by Thomas Gray |
| I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. |
| by Aldous Huxley |
| Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth. |
| by François La Rochefoucauld |
| We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. |
| by Philip Massinger |
| 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. |
| by Michel De Montaigne |
| To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts. |
| by Frank Tyger |
| Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away. |
| by Abraham Cowley |
| An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them. |
| by Bhagavad Gita |
| Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong. |
| by Vita Sackville-West |
| A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. |
| by George Santayana |
| Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that no man enjoys either in perfection that does not join both. |
| by Phillip D. Stanhope |
| Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion.... The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust. |
| by Charles Dickens |
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