You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
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.
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
[Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure.
[Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most
unhappy kind of misfortune.
[Lat., In read more
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most
unhappy kind of misfortune.
[Lat., In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est
infortunii fuisse felicem.]
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, sorrow!
Why dost borrow
Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?
O, sorrow!
Why dost borrow
Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?
But pleasures are like poppies spread;
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.
Or like the read more
But pleasures are like poppies spread;
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white--then melts forever.
