pleasure Quotes

The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.

There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of... ...

How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more... ...

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess... ...

Change in all things is sweet.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.