Aphorisms, quotes, sayings of great people on the topic of Enjoyment

Enjoy life, enjoy every minute of it - after all, pleasures end before life.

Philip Chesterfield

Music is the only sinless sensual pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

There is hardly any higher of pleasures than the pleasure of creating.

Nikolay Gogol

To love reading is to exchange hours of boredom, inevitable in life, for hours of great pleasure.

Charles Montesquieu

All human misfortunes arise from the fact that we enjoy what should be enjoyed and use what should be enjoyed.

Gilbert Chesterton

A fool pursues pleasure and finds disappointment; the sage only avoids grief.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Variety is the mother of pleasure.

Benjamin Disraeli

The most unbearable torment is caused by the prolongation of the most intense pleasures.

George Shaw

Work is my first pleasure.

Wolfgang Mozart

The life of people devoted only to pleasure without reason and without morality has no value.

Immanuel Kant

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Voltaire

Those people who are especially passionate about passions can enjoy life the most.

Rene Descartes

The thirst for pleasure makes one cruel.

Pierre Buast

The greatest sensual pleasure, which does not contain any impurity or aversion, is, in a healthy state, rest after work.

Immanuel Kant

Desires are the flowers of love, and pleasures are its fruits.

Claude-Adrian Helvetius

The only way to enjoy life is to be fearless and not be afraid of defeats and disasters.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Wealth and coarse pleasures give rise to laziness, and laziness gives rise to slaves.

Fedor Dostoevsky

The greatest pleasure is to do what others think you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Plunging to the very bottom of pleasure, we pull out more sand than pearls.

Honore Balzac

The hope of pleasure is almost as pleasant as pleasure itself.

William Shakespeare

We eat for our own pleasure, dress for the pleasure of others.

Benjamin Franklin

The goal of all human endeavor is to achieve happiness. However, happiness cannot be achieved, enjoyed, or secured until all people enjoy good health and acquire genuine knowledge and wealth.

Robert Owen

Enjoy and give pleasure, without causing harm to yourself or others - this, in my opinion, is the essence of morality.

Nicola Chamfort

Pleasure is not in what I taste, but in getting what I want.

Søren Kirkegaard

People usually do not so much enjoy what they have been given as grieve over what they have not been given.

Vissarion Belinsky

I know of only three weapons by which the morals of the people can be influenced: the power of law, the power of public opinion, and the attraction of pleasure.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life is too good to enjoy.

Gilbert Chesterton

When we are no longer able to taste pleasures, we begin to discredit them.

Julien-Aufray La Mettrie

If you do something good with difficulty, the labor will pass, but the good will remain, and if you do something bad with pleasure, the pleasure will pass, but the bad will remain.

Mikhail Lomonosov

The art of enhancing pleasure lies in the ability to be stingy with it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pleasures are like insurance: the older you are, the more it costs you.

Frank Hubbard

Physical sensitivity aroused in us a love of pleasure and an aversion to pain... then the feelings of pleasure and pain sowed and nurtured in all hearts the seeds of self-love, which, developing, gave birth to the passions from which all our vices and virtues flowed.

Claude-Adrian Helvetius

The same means that enable a man to become rich prevent him from enjoying wealth.

Antoine Rivarol

Only by having the appetite of a poor man can wealth be tastefully enjoyed; Only with the outlook of a tradesman can you enjoy it like a king.

Antoine Rivarol

Those who chase great wealth without ever finding time to enjoy it are like hungry people who are always cooking and never sit down to eat.

Maria-Ebner Eschenbach

Possessing all kinds of benefits is not everything. To receive pleasure from owning them is what happiness consists of.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Always enjoying means not enjoying at all.

Voltaire

Pleasure is any sensation that the soul prefers to experience rather than not experience.

Stendhal

Reduce the mass of human suffering and increase the mass of human pleasure. All the efforts of all intelligent and honest people have always tended towards this goal, consciously and unconsciously, directly and indirectly.

Dmitry Pisarev

To exclude imagination from our pleasures is to reduce them to nothing.

Marcel Proust

A person will always seek pleasure, because it is natural for him to love everything that brightens up and makes existence pleasant; It will never be possible to make a person love inconvenience and misfortune.

Paul Holbach

In the old age of love, as in the old age of years, people still live for sorrows, but no longer live for pleasures.

Francois La Rochefoucauld

Pleasure is a good sought after everywhere and which consists in the pleasure of soul and body...

Lorenzo Valla

Nothing preserves life more than pleasure through the organs of taste, sight, hearing, smell, touch, without which we cannot live.

Lorenzo Valla

Work hard to enjoy.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are no such pleasures and joys that would not lose this name when they are obtained easily and in abundance.

Marie Sevigne

Art has a moral effect not only because it provides pleasure through moral means, but also because the pleasure provided by art itself serves as a path to morality.

Johann Schiller

While philosophers argue about what is most important—virtue or pleasure—look for the means to possess both.

Francis Bacon

Truly, a legislator who cares about the welfare of man must lower the value of labor, which is now too high, and instill in people that thinking about pleasure should, if they want to ennoble themselves, be their highest aspiration. Work, like sleep, is a means of pleasure and preservation of health. Where it becomes the goal of life, a person is not yet capable of any sublime sense of his own worth.

August Einsiedel

Only that pleasure is natural which does not know satiety.

Francis Bacon

Mental pleasures lengthen life just as much as sensual pleasures shorten it.

Pierre Buast

Quotes about enjoying life

This collection includes quotes about enjoying life to understand the essence of what is happening. And here is the first saying: Growing old is boring, but it is the only way to live long. Bernard Show

We want to be the source of all the joys or, if this is not possible, all the misfortunes of the one we love. J. Labruyère.

Suffering has great creative potential.

the best things in life are free: hugs, smiles, friends, kisses, family, sleep, love, laughter and good mood.

The greatest happiness that can happen in life is a happy childhood. Agatha Christie

Don't tire yourself out thinking about what others think of you.

Now that we have learned to fly through the air like birds, to swim under water like fish, we lack only one thing: to learn to live on earth like people. Bernard Show

There is a test to determine whether your mission on earth is completed or not. If you're still alive, it means it's not finished. Richard Bach

Those born to crawl will crawl everywhere. M. Zhvanetsky

People always blame circumstances. I don't believe in circumstances. In this world, only those who seek the conditions they need succeed and, if they do not find them, create them themselves. Bernard Show

There are many ways to kill time and none to resurrect it.

Why are you suffering? Love those who love you!

If something can be misunderstood, then it will be misunderstood.

The strongest excuses are made by people with weak character!

Every day can be the first or the last in life, it all depends on how you look at this issue.

If you buy what you don't need, you will soon sell what you do need. Benjamin Franklin

Men remember about many women only when they want to forget about others.

Our destiny is shaped by those small, imperceptible decisions that we make 100 times a day. Anthony Robbins

He who wants to acquire love must reject every evil and unpeaceful thought, not to mention deeds and words, and must forgive everyone fair and unjust insults.

Dreams come true, I fell in love with you so much!

It is better to be a slave to the beloved than to be free to the unloved. E. Bern.

A person exists when he chooses himself. A. Schopenhauer

People are divided into those who can be relied on and those who need to be trusted. M. Zhvanetsky

You cannot judge a person without listening to him. Agatha Christie

Poets and canaries stop singing when they have a mate. Placid Yankovsky

Anyone who wants to enter the path of love should not worry about how to treat all people, whether they are good or bad. Rev. Isaiah

Life itself means nothing; its price depends on its use. J. J. Rousseau

If you get scared, don’t run, otherwise you’ll end up running endlessly.

A small dose of stress restores our youth and vitality.

When you appreciate what you have, and not live in search of ideals, then you will truly become happy. Friedrich Nietzsche.

Excessive touchiness is a sign of a lack of intelligence or some kind of complex.

If you want to collect honey, don’t destroy the hive. Psychologist and educator Dale Carnegie

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. Anatole France

We care most about life as it loses its value; old people regret it more than young people. J. J. Rousseau

An individual does not have to be wiser than an entire nation.

You must love life more than the meaning of life. Dostoevsky F. M.

Carrying with me in my soul the pain of grievances and past disappointments...

Saint Ignatius (Brianchaninov)

The meaning of life is revealed in the human mind as a desire for good. Clarification of this good, a more and more precise definition of it, constitutes the main goal and work of life for all mankind. Tolstoy L. N.

To be able to enjoy the life you have lived means to live twice. - Martial.

There is no love without respect!

Don't worry about too many things and you will outlive many.

They always return to their first love. Charles Etienne

Falling is part of life, rising to your feet is living it, being alive is a gift, and being happy is your choice.

Have you seen a man who never lies? It's hard to see him, everyone avoids him. M. Zhvanetsky

Proverbs contradict each other. This is what folk wisdom consists of. E. Lec

Only that love that lurks in the depths of our heart and is unknown to us is pure and free from the influence of other passions. F. La Rochefoucauld.

In some, both hemispheres are protected by the skull, in others, by pants. M. Zhvanetsky

Marital fidelity, maintained mainly out of fear, is not much different from adultery. V. Sinyavsky.

The worst loneliness is when a person is uncomfortable with himself. Mark Twain

Since childhood I have loved greens, and to this day I am almost indifferent to the ruble.

Aphorisms and quotes about pleasure

The best pleasure, the highest joy in life is to feel needed and close to people. M. Gorky

The greatest sensual pleasure, which does not contain any admixture of disgust, is, in a healthy state, rest after work. I. Kant

Any pleasure is good if it is free from injustice and excess, if it is the fruit of natural attraction and meets the desires of a refined nature. E. Senancourt

The true source of pleasure is found only in the paths of duty. Pleasure comes as the crown of every righteous deed. S. Smiles

Our true pleasure lies in free mastery of ourselves. J. Buffon

Every pleasure is always just the satisfaction of a need. A. Schopenhauer

The hope of pleasure is as pleasant as pleasure itself. W. Shakespeare

Pleasure taken to the limit is painful, like pain. K. Lewis

Pleasure is the fruit of labor and the reward for it. L. Vauvenargues

Pleasure is not in what I taste, but in getting what I want. S. Kierkegaard

Pleasure that cannot be spoken about is not pleasure. F. Rojas

Enjoyment is the only use of life. K. Helvetius

Pleasures are like those flowers that cause dizziness when you breathe in their scent for too long. P. Buast

Enjoying communication is the main sign of friendship. Aristotle

Pleasure is the greatest bait that leads to evil. Nearchus

Pleasure is the reef on which most young people crash. In an effort to find him, they set sail with full sail, but they have no compass to guide their way, they do not have enough intelligence to steer the ship along any correct course. Therefore, their journey, instead of giving them pleasure, ends for them in torment and shame. F. Chesterfield

Pleasure, to which we surrender undividedly and recklessly, becomes our most inexorable enemy. C. Nodier

Eternal pleasure is equivalent to eternal deprivation. W. Shakespeare

The highest pleasure of a man is to make a woman enjoy not him, but herself; but a woman loves only a man who makes her enjoy him, and not herself. V. Klyuchevsky

The art of enhancing pleasure lies in the ability to be stingy with it. J. J. Rousseau

Some people think that they are buying pleasure, but they themselves are selling themselves into slavery. B. Franklin

The essence of pleasure is in the desire for it. B. Pascal

Pleasures are like food: the simplest ones are the least boring. J. Sanyal-Dubé

Excessive sensual pleasures lose their brightness and cease to be pleasures. B. Pascal

It is precisely those whose lives are spent in pursuit of pleasure who not only do not escape boredom, but suffer from it more acutely than others. O. Huxley

There are no sweeter pleasures than the hardships to which we subject ourselves for the sake of the happiness of those we love. P. Buast

To be able to enjoy is better than pleasure itself. G. Lewis

Always enjoying means not enjoying at all. Voltaire