The pleasures that give most joy are the ones that most rarely come.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Pleasure is seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Our pleasures, however refined or easily acquired, are by their very nature fleeting. They begin to subside the instant the arise, only to be replaced by fresh desires or feelings of discomfort.

The fine point of seldom pleasure has been blunted

Life doesn't really offer that many pleasures that you can go around avoiding the obvious ones.

What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them?

My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.

Things of the first importance are few; let appreciation be rare.

5454. We seldom find out that we are flattered.

But our pleasures are, by their very nature, fleeting. If we enjoy some great professional success, our feelings of accomplishment remain vivid and intoxicating for an hour, or perhaps a day, but then they subside.

I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another eating while reading.

One can seldom admire what one loves.