| To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. -- Charles C. Colton |
| Author:
Colton, Charles C.Era:
1780 |
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| If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. -- Cicero |
| Author:
CiceroEra:
-106 |
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| Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| The greatest pleasure of life is love. -- William Temple |
| Author:
Temple, WilliamEra:
1628 |
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| To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts. -- Frank Tyger |
| Author:
Tyger, FrankEra:
1950 |
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| pleasure is the bait of sin. -- Plato |
| Author:
PlatoEra:
-427 |
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| 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. -- Michel De Montaigne |
| Author:
Montaigne, Michel DeEra:
1533 |
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| To hide her cares her only art; her pleasure, pleasures to impart. -- Thomas Gray |
| Author:
Gray, ThomasEra:
1716 |
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| A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them. -- Bhagavad Gita |
| Author:
Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it. -- Epictetus |
| Author:
EpictetusEra:
50 |
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| Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex. -- Oscar Wilde |
| Author:
Wilde, OscarEra:
1854 |
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| We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness. -- Philip Massinger |
| Author:
Massinger, PhilipEra:
1583 |
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| The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation. -- Tupper |
| Author:
TupperEra:
1810 |
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| If rich men would remember that shrouds have no pockets, they would, while living, share their wealth with their children, and give for the good of others, and so know the highest pleasure wealth can give. -- Tryon Edwards |
| Author:
Edwards, TryonEra:
1809 |
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| It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. -- Jean La Fontaine |
| Author:
La Fontaine, JeanEra:
1621 |
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| Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfill. Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away. -- Abraham Cowley |
| Author:
Cowley, AbrahamEra:
1618 |
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| Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. -- William Henley |
| Author:
Henley, WilliamEra:
1849 |
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