Pierre Corneille Quote

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Voltaire

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

Alfred de Musset

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Thomas Hardy

• Learning

He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

Xenophon

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Aristotle

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

• Action

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Dale Carnegie

• Art

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Alfred Hitchcock

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

• Joy

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Martin Luther

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

Epicurus

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.

Claude Monet

• Joy

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

• Joy
• Learning

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Donald Trump

Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

Sophocles