The desires of the senses call you to roam abroad, but when their hour is spent, what do you bring back but a burdened conscience and a distracted heart? A cheerful going out often brings a sad home-coming, and a merry evening brings a sorry morning. For every bodily pleasure brings joy at first, but […]
Pleasure Quotes
The test of an enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
A man is born to hereditary rank; or his being appointed to certain offices, gives him a certain rank. Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
Pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself a slave to it.
Debauchee, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.
However versed we may be in satiety, we remain caricatures of our precursor Xerxes. Was it not he who promised by edict a reward to anyone who could invent a new pleasure? That was the most modern gesture of antiquity.
