“I like a man willing to pay the price of his pleasures”

Attributed to Sun Tzu in multiple books and internet sites, but this text does not appear in The Art of War and seems to be a more recent creation.
Disputed

Source: After Dark

Source: The Summer Garden

From Discover the Champion in You, pages 7

Source: Eldest

Part III: La Clé des Chants (p. 93)
The Unquiet Grave (1944)
Context: Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.

Source: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 16 (p. 217)