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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 (Pleasure Quotes)
If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain (Pleasure Quotes)
Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind (Pleasure Quotes)
Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake (Pleasure Quotes)
Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability (Pleasure Quotes)
The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, andc., when playing together, like our own children (Pleasure Quotes)
Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it’s the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband’s mood (Pleasure Quotes)
They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them (Pleasure Quotes)
People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them (Pleasure Quotes)
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure (Pleasure Quotes)
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise (Pleasure Quotes)
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 (Pleasure Quotes)
Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice (Pleasure Quotes)
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors (Pleasure Quotes)
Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it’s disgusting; it’s just running around. It’s not my idea of pleasure (Pleasure Quotes)
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it (Pleasure Quotes)
Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking (Pleasure Quotes)
We all live in the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and always will be greatest, when our endeavors are exerted in consequence of our duty (Pleasure Quotes)
I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain (Pleasure Quotes)
There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet (Pleasure Quotes)
I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it (Pleasure Quotes)
We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure (Pleasure Quotes)
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves (Pleasure Quotes)
Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off (Pleasure Quotes)
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure (Pleasure Quotes)
There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure (Pleasure Quotes)
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection (Pleasure Quotes)
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain (Pleasure Quotes)
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good (Pleasure Quotes)
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook (Pleasure Quotes)