Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

“You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.”

“Where joy grows deep, sorrow must deepen; the greater one's pleasures, the greater the pain.”

“We may readily set aside the pleasures of today and invest all efforts in our futures.”

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.