Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy.
Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.
I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.