Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and read more

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.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you
by your praises extol to the skies.
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I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you
by your praises extol to the skies.
[Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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

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

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.]

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.