5155 | It is hard to fight against emotion, but harder still to fight against pleasure [Heraclitus] |
442 | Pleasures are like pirates - if you are caught they drown you in a sea of pleasures [Epicharmus] |
1664 | I would rather go mad than experience pleasure [Antisthenes (I)] |
4319 | In a fool's mind desire is like a leaky jar, insatiable in its desires, and order and contentment are better [Plato] |
132 | If happiness is the satisfaction of desires, then a life of scratching itches should be happiness [Plato] |
264 | The conquest of pleasure is the noblest victory of all [Plato] |
2123 | Excessive pleasure deranges people, making the other virtues impossible [Plato] |
2158 | Pleasure-seekers desperately seek illusory satisfaction, like filling a leaky vessel [Plato] |
84 | The greater the pleasure, the greater the hindrance to thought [Aristotle] |
523 | It is as brave to master pleasure as to overcome the enemy [Democritus (attr)] |
7899 | Even divine pleasure will not satisfy the wise, as it is insatiable, and leads to pain [Anon (Dham)] |
20852 | Rapture is a breakdown of virtue [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius] |
13323 | The whole point of pleasure-seeking is novelty, and abandoning established ways [Seneca] |
4859 | Pleasure is only bad in so far as it hinders a man's capability for action [Spinoza] |