“No pleasure is in itself evil, but the things which produce certain pleasures entail annoyances many times greater than the pleasures themselves.”

“The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.”

“It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil.”

“In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.”

“Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?”

“AZRAEL:

No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater… than central air.”

“Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.”

“Death is regarded as an evil and our minds are only meditating upon life itself, and never upon the destroyer of pleasure, which is death.”

“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”

“Labor is itself a pleasure.”
Labor est etiam ipse voluptas.