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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer (Pleasures Quotes)
A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may (Pleasures Quotes)
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place (Pleasures Quotes)
I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them (Pleasures Quotes)
No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more (Pleasures Quotes)
Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires (Pleasures Quotes)
The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life (Pleasures Quotes)
Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications (Pleasures Quotes)
Life itself is selfless giving. We’re not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures (Pleasures Quotes)
Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives (Pleasures Quotes)
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures (Pleasures Quotes)
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not (Pleasures Quotes)
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue’s sake (Pleasures Quotes)
Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures (Pleasures Quotes)
It’s folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful (Pleasures Quotes)
The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman... supplying, so far as he can, by speculation, the place of pleasures he can no longer enjoy (Pleasures Quotes)
Do not be in a hurry to rush into the pleasures of the world like the young antelope who danced herself lame when the main dance was yet to come (Pleasures Quotes)
Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources! (Pleasures Quotes)
I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world (Pleasures Quotes)
One of the pleasures of art is that it enables the mind to move in unanticipated directions, to make connections that may be in some sense errors but are fruitful nonetheless (Pleasures Quotes)
Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent (Pleasures Quotes)
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don’t always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out, and for me, that’s one of the pleasures of reading older collections of lore (Pleasures Quotes)
Creative work is one of life’s greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt (Pleasures Quotes)
One of life’s few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week (Pleasures Quotes)
It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman’s son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself (Pleasures Quotes)
Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet (Pleasures Quotes)
I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted (Pleasures Quotes)
All pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one’s hat on (Pleasures Quotes)
Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end (Pleasures Quotes)
Moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It’s also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people (Pleasures Quotes)