pleasure Quotes

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

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... ...

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Wise people aim to avoid pain, not just to find pleasure.

Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

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

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

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