For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.

For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.

With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase

With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase

Anticipation makes the pleasure.

Anticipation makes the pleasure.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
[Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]

Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
[Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]

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.]

Men may scoff, and men may pray,
But they pay
Every pleasure with a pain.

Men may scoff, and men may pray,
But they pay
Every pleasure with a pain.

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.