"Variety is the soul of pleasure." - Aphra Behn, The Rover

"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth." - Thomas Carlyle

"In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures." - Cicero

"When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it." - Epicetus

"An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses. Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them." - Bhagavad Gita

"Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain." - William Henley

"Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves." - Samuel Johnson

"To love is find pleasure in the happiness of the person loved." - Leibnitz, Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von