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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

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

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.