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I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am
lonely because I am miserable.
I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am
lonely because I am miserable.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Who pleases one against his will.
Who pleases one against his will.
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a read more
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a hook.
[Lat., Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea
videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo.]
Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each read more
Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by read more
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no
fellowship with virtue.
[Lat., Voluptas read more
Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no
fellowship with virtue.
[Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ita dicam) praestringit oculos, nec
habet ullum cum virtute commercium.]
Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.
Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.