It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.