Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.