Quotes About Pleasure

The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.

Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.

The will of man is his happiness.

We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.

You've gotta do things that make you happy.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.