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  • William Shakespeare Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Pierre Charron Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
    Pierre Charron
    French philosopher (1541 - 1603)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Roland Barthes Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • William Cowper Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Oscar Wilde Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Donne Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • John Selden Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Raymond Hitchcock Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
    Raymond Hitchcock
     
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  • Plato Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Voltaire Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Samuel Johnson Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Georges Bataille Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Samuel Johnson Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anita Loos Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Marvin J. Ashton Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
    Marvin J. Ashton
    American Mormon clergyman and politician (1971 - 1994)
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