Then love of pleasure sways each heart, and we From that no more than from ourselves can fly. Blameless when govern'd well. But where it errs Extravagant, and wildly leads to ill, Public or private, there its curbing pow'r Cool reason must exert.
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.
No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.
A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.
Pleasure is the bait of sin
The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
What a great thing is understanding! It is priceless. No man can give greater pleasure to his fellow man than by understanding him.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure?
Naturally, business and pleasure can be readily combined, but a certain balance should exist, and the latter should not predominate over the former.
There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy
We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet.
All pleasure should be a little bent, don't you think?
The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
[On reading:] It is almost the only inexhaustible pleasure.
When we accept all of life's contradictions, when we can comfortably flow between the banks of pleasure and pain, experiencing them both while getting stuck in neither, then we are free.