Motivational Quotes

Pleasure

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

- Lucretius

Best Quotes about Pleasure

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Lucretius

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

Donne, John

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Epictetus

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Goldsmith, Oliver

Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening.

Keats, John

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Billings, Josh

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Proverbs 9:17]

Bible

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Drabble, Margaret

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It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

Bennett, Arnold

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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Young

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It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.

Moliere

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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.

Selden, John

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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

Bonnard, Pierre

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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Mencken, H. L.

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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

Seneca

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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Vaneigem, Raoul

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Lucretius

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People have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

Proust, Marcel

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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Work is often the father of pleasure.

Voltaire

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As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.

Devi, Sri Sarada

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Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

Byron, Lord

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I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

Einstein, Albert

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Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Loos, Anita

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Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Plato

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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us -- of becoming happy -- is not attainable: yet we may not -- nay, cannot -- give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Freud, Sigmund

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Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.

Virgil

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For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.

Butler, Samuel

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Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

Clinton, De Witt

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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

Charron, Pierre

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Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Voltaire

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The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Addison, Joseph

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Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.

Barthes, Roland

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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Bataille, Georges

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When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.

Proverb, American

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Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

Traherne, Thomas

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There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Little, Mary

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He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

Pascal, Blaise

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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

Proverb, Chinese

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Antrim, Minna

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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Bagehot, Walter

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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Chesterfield, Lord