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Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each read more
Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation.
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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.]
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
[Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum
est.]
In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
[Lat., Omnibus in rebus voluptatibus maximis fastidium finitimum
est.]
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.