The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

The variety of all things forms a pleasure.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity
of something.
[Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr read more

For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity
of something.
[Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als
Einerleiheit des Etwas.]

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.

Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
[Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]

Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
[Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]

It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

Countless the various species of mankind,
Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind;
No general object read more

Countless the various species of mankind,
Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind;
No general object of desire is known,
Each has his will, and each pursues his own.