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

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

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.

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.]

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

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

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, read more

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.