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I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.

Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable.

Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

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.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

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

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.