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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

If you’re interested in ‘balancing’ work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.