Where there is happiness, the need for pleasure isn’t highly necessary, but where there is pleasure, the gift of happiness is still highly needed. Try not to mistake the two.

He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.

The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.

What do you most wish for, Izzy?” “Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.

We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to...

Expectations ruin the pleasures of life. To overcome every bad and appreciate every good, consider every day your last and take no one for granted.

A cooperative spirit enjoys a better harvest.

I maybe such a pain in the ass,But in a good way.I give you pleasure at the same time!

(…) provou que (o prazer) é um presente da divindade, ‘pois – dizia – o homem não pode dar a si próprio nem sensações nem ideias, recebe tudo; a dor e o prazer lhe vêm...

Whatever one does, someone is always happy…then again, someone else is not pleased

… food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.