Quote

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.