“Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.”
Elias Canetti
“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.”
Chinese Proverbs
“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”
C.S. Lewis
“Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.”
Chamfort
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”
“Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty, (or libertinism.)”
Benjamin Franklin
