Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
“’'Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.”
“Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.”
“Pleasure disappoints; possibility does not.”
“Real enjoyment consists not in what one enjoys but in the idea.”
“Desire in our age is simultaneously sinful and boring, because it desires what belongs to the neighbor.”