Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
The fruits of labor are the sweetest of all pleasures.
Man is born for pleasure; he feels it; no other proof of it is needed.
We must observe that in each one of us there are two ruling and leading principles, which we follow whithersoever they lead; one is the innate desire for pleasures, the other an acquired opinion which strives for the best. These two sometimes agree within us and are sometimes in strife; and sometimes one, and sometimes the other has the greater power.
The pleasure from hard effort is the sweetest.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
Pleasure is the beginning and end of the blessed life.
For whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.
Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure.
Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure.
Certainly thinking is pleasant, but the pleasure of thinking must be subordinated to the art of making decisions.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
