Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

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

- Charron, Pierre

Best Quotes about Pleasure

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

Charron, Pierre

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Bennett, Arnold

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

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Loos, Anita

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

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

Bataille, Georges

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Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Little, Mary

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He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.

Buxton, Charles

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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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

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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Voltaire

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

Moliere

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

Buffett, Warren

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

Vaneigem, Raoul

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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

Proust, Marcel

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Aristotle

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Lucretius

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

Warner, Marina

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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

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Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Duganne, Augustine J.

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Bagehot, Walter

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

Seneca

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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Bonnard, Pierre

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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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

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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Balzac, Honore De

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Goldsmith, Oliver