Pleasures

Examples

• Such is the process by which the youth passes from the necessary pleasures to the unnecessary. Plato. The Republic.
• And of the pleasures of love, and all other pleasures, the same holds good? Plato. The Republic.
• The universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains! Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Riches became mine, wealth poured in upon me, and I rioted in pleasures enhanced a thousandfold to me by the consciousness of my well-kept secret. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Then if there be any city which may be described as master of its own pleasures and desires, and master of itself, ours may claim such a designation? Plato. The Republic.
• Bad, sir, very bad, but an old man has few pleasures. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mrs. Bute could not disguise from herself the fact that none of her party could so contribute to the pleasures of the town-bred lady. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Their father was no object of love to them; he had never seemed the friend of their pleasures, and his absence was unhappily most welcome. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• In short, we want to cheer your daughter, and to give her the opportunity of sharing such pleasures as we are a going to take ourselves. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Plans which had lately appeared to her in the guise of tasks, now appeared like pleasures. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Their force has long passed away--Age has no pleasures, wrinkles have no influence, revenge itself dies away in impotent curses. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• They believe in life after death, where the spirit is surrounded with the pleasures of the happy hunting grounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It has been one of our great cares and pleasures to make them worthy of any station. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Still, the more numerous and violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort--they are reliefs of pain. Plato. The Republic.
• He is the son of a miserly oligarch, and has been taught by him to restrain the love of unnecessary pleasures. Plato. The Republic.
• Again, has he greater experience of the pleasures of honour, or the lover of honour of the pleasures of wisdom? Plato. The Republic.
• Heloise entered a convent and gave good-bye to the world and its pleasures for all time. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Among the chief pleasures of the Catholic monarch between meals during this time of retirement were funeral services. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Would you like, for the sake of clearness, to distinguish which are the necessary and which are the unnecessary pleasures? Plato. The Republic.
• One of the great pleasures of Margaret's life at this time, was in Edith's boy. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation. Plato. The Republic.
• My brother had no regard for her; his pleasures were not what they ought to have been, and from the first he treated her unkindly. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Their pleasures are mixed with pains--how can they be otherwise? Plato. The Republic.
• The number of the interval which separates the king from the tyrant, and royal from tyrannical pleasures, is 729, the cube of 9. Plato. The Republic.
• Then again the citizens will have all things in common, in having common property they will have common pleasures and pains. Plato. The Republic.
• And agreeably to this mode of thinking and speaking, were we not saying that they will have their pleasures and pains in common? Plato. The Republic.
• Does he not call the other pleasures necessary, under the idea that if there were no necessity for them, he would rather not have them? Plato. The Republic.
• All pleasures of earth and sky passed before me like a dream, and that thought only had to me the reality of life. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• It had been one of the first novelties and pleasures of his freedom, and was equally the delight of his wife. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It seems to me that to these three principles three pleasures correspond; also three desires and governing powers. Plato. The Republic.

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