We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.