Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.

For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.

For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

That, though on pleasure she was bent,
She had a frugal mind.

That, though on pleasure she was bent,
She had a frugal mind.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee,
Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee,
Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am
lonely because I am miserable.

I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am
lonely because I am miserable.

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a read more

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men
are caught by it as fish by a hook.
[Lat., Divine Plato escam malorum appeliat voluptatem, quod ea
videlicet homines capiantur, ut pisces hamo.]