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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.
People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial.
The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else.
I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.
It's always a pleasure when you get to work with people that you actually really like.
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
Pleasure is the least consequential... engagement and meaning are much more important.
I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.
Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.
I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.
Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.
And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?
A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.
There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living.
I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.
I'm an early 1990's baby, so I had the pleasure of going through a lot of eras in music.
There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure.
We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.
Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.
The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.
May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you.
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure.
The one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.
Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.
Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.
Our desires cannot be, and were never meant to be, satisfied by earthly pleasures alone.
The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.