“You must sacrifice pleasure in order to obtain the highest pleasure bestowed from your Creator.”
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Introduction to the Book of Zohar, in Introduction to the Book of Zohar: Volume Two, Michael Laitman, ed., Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2005, p. 119.
Introduction to the Book of Zohar

“Draw you pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.”

“The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.”
Vol. 1, p. 286; Letter 43.
Clarissa (1747–1748)

“The appreciation of the connoisseur is the highest pleasure of the artiste.”
Source: The Void Captain's Tale (1983), Chapter 9 (p. 104)

“To admire is, to me, questionless, the highest pleasure of life.”
Letter to the Marquess of Northampton (June 17, 1838), in Robert Perceval Graves, Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton Vol. 2 (1885) https://archive.org/details/lifeofsirwilliam02gravuoft, pp. 260-261.

“He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall.”
Evil Angel, Act V, scene iv
Source: Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)