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When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs. Anacreon himself declares that the flowers swim at the top of the bowl! (Pleasure Quotes)
Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure; each day of business has its hour of leisure (Pleasure Quotes)
I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed (Pleasure Quotes)
I think I may define it to be the faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike (Pleasure Quotes)
Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value! (Pleasure Quotes)
Who ever lives looking for pleasure only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his enjoyments, idle and weak, the tempter will certainly overcome him, as the wind blows down a weak tree (Pleasure Quotes)
Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind cankered with ambition, or the lust of power and grandeur (Pleasure Quotes)
Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, no more than glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them (Pleasure Quotes)
There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere besides the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good. I am sure no other is comparable to this (Pleasure Quotes)
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events (Pleasure Quotes)
That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth (Pleasure Quotes)
Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid (Pleasure Quotes)
Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy (Pleasure Quotes)
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one (Pleasure Quotes)
Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats (Pleasure Quotes)
In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality (Pleasure Quotes)
The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased (Pleasure Quotes)
The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received (Pleasure Quotes)
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance (Pleasure Quotes)
The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action, and to encourage the continuance (Pleasure Quotes)
That reproach of modern times, that gulf of time and fortune, the passion for gaming, which is so often the refuge of the idle sons of pleasure and often, alas! The last resource of the ruined (Pleasure Quotes)
Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain (Pleasure Quotes)
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys (Pleasure Quotes)
Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer (Pleasure Quotes)
Those who are unacquainted with the world take pleasure in the intimacy of great men; those who are wiser dread the consequences (Pleasure Quotes)
Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined (Pleasure Quotes)
Pleasure has its time; so too has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation (Pleasure Quotes)
There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure (Pleasure Quotes)
The pleasure of criticism takes from us that of being deeply moved by very beautiful things (Pleasure Quotes)
We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing (Pleasure Quotes)