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And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures
View quotes by Michel De Montaigne
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
'Emma'
View quotes by Jane Austen
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.
View quotes by Christopher Marlowe
When all is done and said, in the end thus shall you find,
He most of all doth bathe in bliss that hath a quiet mind;
And, clearfrom worldly cares, to deem can be content
The sweetest time in all his life in thinking to be spent. (The Pleasures of Thinking 1576)
View quotes by Lord Vaux
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
View quotes by Henry David Thoreau
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
View quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
View quotes by Anthony Trollope
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
View quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
View quotes by Camille Paglia
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
View quotes by Kahlil Gibran
Satiety is a neighbour to continued pleasures.
View quotes by Quintilian
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
View quotes by Quintilian
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
View quotes by Elbert Hubbard
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.
View quotes by George Eliot
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
View quotes by Sir Thomas Aquinas
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it never so humble, there's no place like home. [Home, Sweet Home]
View quotes by J H Payne
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
View quotes by Lord Byron
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
View quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
View quotes by Epictetus
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
View quotes by H Jackson Brown Jr
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