Quotes on pleasure
Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.
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William Henley Quotes
Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
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Marquis de Sade Quotes
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
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Rebecca West Quotes
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
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Max Eastman Quotes
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Honore de Balzac Quotes
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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Sydney J. Harris Quotes
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
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Publilius Syrus Quotes
Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.
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Jean de Boufflers Quotes
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
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Jane Austen Quotes
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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Ovid Quotes
The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.
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Germaine Greer Quotes
When will pleasure crash with regret?
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Jareb Teague Quotes