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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
God made all pleasures innocent
View quotes by Caroline Norton
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
View quotes by Henry David Thoreau
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
View quotes by H Jackson Brown Jr
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing
View quotes by Bernard Malamud
Satiety is a neighbour to continued pleasures.
View quotes by Quintilian
The fruit derived from labour is the sweetest of pleasures
View quotes by Luc De Vauvanargues
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
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
View quotes by Lord Byron
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
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
'Emma'
View quotes by Jane Austen
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
View quotes by Elbert Hubbard
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be
View quotes by Lillian Hellman
The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.
View quotes by Marquis De Vauvenargues
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
View quotes by Epictetus
Life brings simple pleasures to us every day. It is up to us to make them wonderful memories.
View quotes by Cathy Allen
I seem, for my own part, to see the benevolence of the Deity more clearly in the pleasures of very young children than in anything else in the world
View quotes by William Paley
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
View quotes by Quintilian
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
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
View quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee
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