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Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.
Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins.
Pleasure admitted in undue degree
Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
Pleasure admitted in undue degree
Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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.
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase
With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
[Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.]
Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.
[Lat., Sperne voluptates; nocet empta dolora voluptas.]
There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.