I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.

May your wants be few and your pleasures many.

I have coveted everything and taken pleasure in nothing

Increasingly we confused the pursuit of happiness with the pursuit of pleasure.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.

[W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]