#pleasures

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. ↗

— Quintilian

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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#cares #dividing #doubles #friendship #happy

Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern. ↗

— Mary Richards

#concern #could #dearest #experienced #feel

My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for. ↗

— Jane Rule

#commitments #content #daily #day #harmonious

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise? ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#delights #depends #everything #imagination #joy

People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about. ↗

— Hal Sparks

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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#bring #come #gained #happiness #little

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#age #almost #any #completes #costs

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child. ↗

— Willie Stargell

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I love to dance so much. It's one of my guilty pleasures in life and my hobby. ↗

— Mia Maestro

#guilty #hobby #i #i love #life