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.

Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.

Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

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.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you
by your praises extol to the skies.
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I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you
by your praises extol to the skies.
[Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

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

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

Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.

Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.