#pleasure

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#felicity #live #method #peace #pleasure

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#always #anyone #because #cannot #die

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#cow #grazing #mere #must #pleasure

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. ↗

— Pierre Charron

#constant #contrived #directly #opposite #pain

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#evil #good #labor #passes #pleasure

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#err #error #gives #gladly #i

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure. ↗

— Joan Collins

#enthusiasm #i #life #live #my life

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. ↗

— William Congreve

#haste #heels #leisure #married #pleasure

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#die #few #i #never #notices

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#discovery #explained #hope #i #i hope that