Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

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.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it read more

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

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.

Anticipation makes the pleasure.

Anticipation makes the pleasure.

Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem;
There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground
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Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem;
There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground
but holds some joy of silence or of sound,
Some sprite begotten of a summer dream.

When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and read more

When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.