Michel de Montaigne Pleasure Quotations

No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Books are a languid pleasure.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.