pleasure Quotes

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

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain... ...

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

"Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries."

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

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to... ...

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... ...

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

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