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It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
Pleasure Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Pleasure

1.
So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.
Seneca

2.
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
Mencken, H. L.

3.
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
Vaneigem, Raoul

4.
Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
Hitchcock, Raymond

5.
I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Edison, Thomas A.

6.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
Addison, Joseph

7.
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
Proverb, Chinese

8.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Chesterfield, Lord

9.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Wilde, Oscar

10.
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
Lewis, C. S.

11.
For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
Butler, Samuel

12.
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us -- of becoming happy -- is not attainable: yet we may not -- nay, cannot -- give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Freud, Sigmund

13.
We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
Einstein, Albert

14.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
Billings, Josh

15.
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
Donne, John

16.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Bagehot, Walter

17.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
Moliere

18.
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

19.
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.
Buffett, Warren

20.
A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Young

21.
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
Pascal, Blaise

22.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus

23.
Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
Goldsmith, Oliver

24.
People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Proust, Marcel

25.
Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
Proverb

26.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
Lucretius

27.
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
Clinton, De Witt

28.
Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
Traherne, Thomas

29.
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
Bataille, Georges

30.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Huxley, Aldous

31.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato

32.
Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
Barthes, Roland

33.
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Bonnard, Pierre

34.
Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]
Bible

35.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
Johnson, Samuel

36.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.
Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.
Selden, John

38.
Work is often the father of pleasure.
Voltaire

39.
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
Charron, Pierre

40.
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
Lavater, Johann Kaspar

41.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
Antrim, Minna

42.
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

43.
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Balzac, Honore De

44.
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.
Keats, John

45.
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
Lucretius

46.
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Voltaire

47.
As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
Devi, Sri Sarada

48.
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
Branden, Nathaniel

49.
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Duganne, Augustine J.

50.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Cicero, Marcus T.


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