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| Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. ~ William Henley |
| Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. ~ Thomas Carlyle |
| I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. ~ Rebecca West |
| There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. ~ Max Eastman |
| Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~ Jean de Boufflers |
| In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ~ Cicero |
| Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ~ Soren Kierkegaard |
| In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ~ Honore de Balzac |
| We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. ~ Sydney J. Harris |
| Pleasure is the bait of sin. ~ Plato |
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| Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. ~ Jane Austen |
| No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. ~ Publilius Syrus |
| For some, pleasure is a fever they can’t shake. For others, it’s a disease they cannot seem to catch. ~ Terri Guillemets |
| The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. ~ Germaine Greer |
| Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. ~ William Burroughs |
| There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. ~ Ovid, |