To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.