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Cicero:In everything satiety closely follows the


In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
by Cicero


Tupper:The choicest pleasures of life lie within


The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
by Tupper


Charles C. Colton:To know the pains of power, we


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


Thomas Gray:To hide her cares her only art; her


To hide her cares her only art; her pleasure, pleasures to impart.
by Thomas Gray


Aldous Huxley:I can sympathise with people's


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


François La Rochefoucauld:Age is a tyrant, who


Age is a tyrant, who forbids, at the penalty of life, all the pleasures of youth.
by François La Rochefoucauld


Philip Massinger:We have not an hour of life in


We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.
by Philip Massinger


Michel De Montaigne:'Tis the sharpness of our


'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
by Michel De Montaigne


Frank Tyger:To laugh with others is one of


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


Abraham Cowley:Money was made, not to command


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


Bhagavad Gita:An intelligent person does not


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


Vita Sackville-West:Travel is the most private


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


George Santayana:A string of excited, fugitive,


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


Phillip D. Stanhope:Business by no means forbids


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


Charles Dickens:Change begets change. Nothing


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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