Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
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