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Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them.