Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
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.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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