Cicero

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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Epictetus

When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.

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Gita, Bhagavad

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

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Gray, Thomas

To hide her cares her only art; her pleasure, pleasures to impart.

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Henley, William E.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.

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Johnson, Samuel

Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves.

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Massinger, Philip

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

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Plato

Pleasure is the bait of sin.

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Wilde, Oscar

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

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