“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.”
C.S. Lewis
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.”
Chinese Proverbs
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”
“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”
“Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.)”
Benjamin Franklin
“Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.”
Baruch Spinoza
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