(1130 quotes found)
“The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.”
Vernon Lee
“That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.”
Edgar Allan Poe
“You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expression, nor show too much pleasure ; but endeavor to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression, that may be”
Benjamin Franklin
“Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.”
Giotto di Bondone
“Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.”
Stendhal
“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”
G. Wilhelm Leibniz
“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
Katherine Mansfield
“... the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.”
Dr. Carl Sagan
“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
Aristotle
“There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting”
Moliere
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