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Pleasure Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.”

John D. Rockefeller

Pleasure, Life, Meaning, Purpose, Balance

2. “Fly not yet; ’t is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.”

Charles Lamb

Night, Pleasure, Mystery, Romance, Beauty

3. “For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.”

Charles Lamb

Tobacco, Addiction, Humor, Pleasure, Devotion

4. “Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.”

Charles Lamb

Heaven, Eternity, Pleasure, Perspective, Spiritual

5. “To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.”

Charles Lamb

Excess, Moderation, Pleasure, Overindulgence, Taste

6. “Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.”

Charles Lamb

Coleridge, Food, Conscience, Pleasure, Humor

7. “You don’t have to read books. You have to enjoy books.”

Ankur Warikoo

Reading, Enjoyment, Choice, Engagement, Pleasure

8. “The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.”

Democritus

Moderation, Excess, Pleasure, Consequence, Balance

9. “Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.”

Democritus

Moderation, Pleasure, Balance, Satisfaction, Restraint

10. “The brave man is he who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures.”

Democritus

Bravery, Self-control, Pleasure, Discipline, Wisdom

11. “Men achieve cheerfulness by moderation in pleasure.”

Democritus

Cheerfulness, Moderation, Pleasure, Balance, Wisdom

12. “Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.”

Democritus

Pleasure, Moderation, Pain, Consequence, Desire

13. “The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.”

Democritus

Bravery, Strength, Pleasure, Self-Control, Virtue

14. “Accept nothing pleasant unless it is beneficial.”

Democritus

Pleasure, Wisdom, Moderation, Prudence, Discipline

15. “Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others’.”

Plutarch

Envy, Malice, Nature, Pleasure, Distress

16. “The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.”

Plutarch

Youth, Pleasure, Discipline, Maturity, Restraint

17. “We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.”

Plutarch

Books, Wisdom, Knowledge, Pleasure, Learning

18. “You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.”

Leonard Cohen

Pain, Pleasure, Existence, Struggle, Paradox

19. “The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.”

Thomas Merton

Selfishness, Pleasure, Truth, Faith, Reflection

20. “Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.”

Thomas Merton

Pleasure, Joy, Life, Difference, Fulfillment

21. “Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.”

Anton Chekhov

Philosophy, Life, Happiness, Idleness, Pleasure

22. “One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.”

Chanakya

Knowledge, Pleasure, Choice, Wisdom, Learning