Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.