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 2. All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

 3. An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

 4. Choose such pleasures as recreate much and cost little.

 5. Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

 6. Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.

 7. Fire is never satisfied with fuel, nor the ocean with rivers, nor death with all creatures, nor bright-eyed women with men.

 8. Fishing is a pleasure of retirement, yet the angler has the power to let the fish live or die. Chess playing is an enjoyable pastime, yet the players are motivated by the idea of war.

 9. Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.

10. From pleasure comes grief, from pleasure comes fear; he who is free from pleasure neither sorrows nor fears.

11. Good things cease to be good in our wrong enjoyment of them. What nature meant pure sweets, are then sources of bitterness to us; from such delights arise pain, from such joys, sorrows.

12. If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

13. If I give way to pleasure, I must also yield to grief, to poverty, to labour, ambition, anger, until I am torn to pieces by my misfortunes and my lust.

14. In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

15. In this ill-smelling, unsubstantial body, which is a conglomerate of bone, skin, muscle, marrow, flesh, semen, blood, mucus, tears, rheum, feces, urine, wind, bile, and phlegm, what is the good of enjoyment of desires?

16. Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might That fashioned forth its loveliness Had other aims than my delight.

17. Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

18. Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves.

19. Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

20. Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquility of thy life.

21. Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

22. Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered, die.

23. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

24. Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

25. Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal; no one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others will in general please them in you.

26. Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies.

27. Pleasure is the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the soul.

28. Pleasure is the bait of sin.

29. Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

30. Pleasure soon exhausts us and itself also; but endeavour never does.

31. Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

32. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its blossom is shed! Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white - then melts for ever.

33. Pleasures are shallow; Sorrows deep.

34. Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

35. Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

36. That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

37. The fruit derived from labour is the sweetest of pleasures.

38. The honest man takes pains, and then enjoys pleasures; the knave takes pleasure, and then suffers pain.

39. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day and hour with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.

40. The pleasure of all things increases by the same danger that should deter it.

41. The pursuit of pleasure Is the most pleasant pleasure.

42. The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

43. The sweetest pleasure is in imparting it.

44. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes By the deep Sea, and music in its roar.

45. There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

46. There is the path of earthly joy, and there is the path of earthly pleasure. Both attract the soul. Who follows the first comes to good; who follows pleasures reaches not the End.

47. There is this difference between spiritual and corporal pleasures, that corporal ones beget a desire before we have obtained them, and after we have obtained them, a disgust; but spiritual pleasures, on the contrary, are not cared for when we have them not, but are desired when we have them.

48. Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

49. To hide her cares her only art; Her pleasure, pleasures to impart.

50. Venture not to the utmost bounds of even lawful pleasures; the limits of good and evil join.

51. We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

52. What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

53. When our pleasures have exhausted us, we think that we have exhausted pleasure.

54. When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.