#pleasure

But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit. ↗

— Brian Castro

#life-lessons #morality #pleasure #life

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#composing #effect #even #had #hand

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#highly #himself #man #pleasure #pride

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#cause #idea #oneself #pleasure

You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#being #creative #feel #love #other

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory? ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#glory #king #less #loves #pleasure

When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#back #come #early #eating #guilty

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#court #her #joy #justice #me

I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#i #i wish #much #pleasure #reading

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case. ↗

— John Rawls

#capacity #case #certainly #clearly #compassion