I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.
Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures, no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet...
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future one.