Voltaire Quote

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Sigmund Freud

• Reality

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Simone de Beauvoir

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

George Lucas

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Woody Allen

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Pierre Corneille

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

Xenophon

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

Monica Bellucci

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Aristotle

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

William Shakespeare

• Action

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Voltaire

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

Dale Carnegie

• Art

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

Thomas Hardy

• Learning

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

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Javan

The greatest pleasure of life is love.

Euripides

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

Victor Hugo

• Soul

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

Sophocles