Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no
fellowship with virtue.
[Lat., Voluptas read more

Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no
fellowship with virtue.
[Lat., Voluptas mentis (ut ita dicam) praestringit oculos, nec
habet ullum cum virtute commercium.]

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There read more

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.

Who pleases one against his will.

Who pleases one against his will.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure.

Look upon the world as your enemy because only then the gifts it gives will give you immense pleasure.

With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase

With the catching ends the pleasure of the chase

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.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure
my business.

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure
my business.