Quotes 221 till 240 of 334.
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.
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Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.
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That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me - with such a one I am in love.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
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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.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
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The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
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