Success, if I simply gave it to you, you wouldn’t have the pleasure of taking it.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

May your dreams be gifts from the gods and may you open them with excitement and pleasure.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price.

They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.

My pleasure is only superficial: in oily droplets it lies on my skin without being absorbed.

Be diplomatic and let them know how it would be a pleasure to assist them in any way you can

If you can find just one place of pleasure within, than you can find the courage to persist.

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!

If there was one thing she'd learned from her parents, it's that pleasure was sacred.