One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
If there are differences between one moment of pleasure and another, a man can always be happy with the same woman.
I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
Every nation, every individual, has unpleasant and even dangerous qualities.
Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalized by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.
As ideas are capable of infinite combination, it ought to be the same with pleasures.
All the pleasure of love is in variety.[Tout le plaisir de l’amour est dans le changement.]
