PLEASURE QUOTES VII

quotations about pleasure

True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.

JOHN LUBBOCK

Peace and Happiness

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Pleasure is the flower that fades, remembrance is the lasting perfume.

BRUCE LEE

Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

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

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics

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Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

LORD BYRON

Don Juan

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Everywhere there is pleasure you will find a woman in disguise.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Cool Memories

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Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

ARTHUR HELPS

Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd

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The highest pleasure is only consciousness of freedom from the deepest pain.

JAMES PARTON

Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin


Pleasure is a river running to the sea; happiness is the full, calm sea.

PETER KREEFT

Heaven: The Heart's Deepest Longing

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Pleasure is a hedonistic reflex, a burning impulse to abandon rational thought altogether and immerse oneself in the moment.

GENE WALLENSTEIN

The Pleasure Instinct


The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality -- which became America's -- was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.

HUGH HEFNER

Playboy, January 1974

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Every act by which pleasure is reaped, without any result of pain, is pure gain to happiness; every act whose results of pain are less than the results of pleasure, is good, to the extent of the balance in favour of happiness.

JEREMY BENTHAM

Deontology

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