Luc de Clapiers Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Life, Pain, Pleasure

• The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Happiness, Fruit, Pleasure

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers (No. 200), 1746.

• You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Luxury, Giving

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

• A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Wicked, Principles

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