Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.
I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people whose lives, pleasures and virtues would never have been testified to without my having done it. That makes me really glad.
The heart is refined, spiritual, and heavenly by nature - guard it; do not overburden it, do not make it earthly, be temperate to the utmost in food and drink, and in general in bodily pleasures. The heart is the temple of God. 'If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy' (I Cor. 3:17).
Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o’erflow with wine. . . The summer hath his joys, And winter his delights; Though love and all his pleasures are but toys, They shorten tedious nights.
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself.
Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.
It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life.
In all our losses, all our gains, In all our pleasures, all our pains, The life of life is: Love remains. In every change from good to ill,- If love continues still, Let happen then what will.
I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better. . . In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower
Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.
It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.
We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.