Best limits & pleasure Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“The end of nature sours all my material pleasures. The prospect of living in a genetically engineered world sickens me. And yet it is toward such a world that our belief in endless material advancement hurries us. As long as that desire drives us, here is no way to set limits.”

World Way Long Ends Desire Belief Pleasure Materials Future Limits Endless Advancement

Author:Bill McKibben

“In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.”

May Certain Fall Pleasure Limits Amusement Immorality

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is a limit to enjoyment, though the sources of wealth be boundlessAnd the choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.”

Lying Wealth Pleasure Source Limits Rings Enjoyment Moderation Pleasures Of Life

Book:Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author

Source: Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author

“Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way.”

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.”

Giving Pleasure Flower Solitude Limits Delight Witty Communicate Woods Instruction Fountain Retired Meadows Console Propriety Chaste Ennui Discreet

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“There's something about the awareness of the limits that makes you tune in more to your surroundings and I've experienced a lot of pleasure or even joy in working with those alternatives and also it's made me so much more aware of just how much work we can make those sources of supply do for us, whether it's electricity or fossil fuels.”

Made Joy Pleasure Awareness Source Limits Alternatives Fuel Tunes Electricity Fossils Surroundings Fossil Fuel

Author:John Lindsay

“This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.”

Men Way Different Pleasure Gone Awareness Limits Degradation Despicable

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to conceal the emptiness with more extravagance, only to find the thrills becoming less satisfying and more fleeting. Most pleasures are best as a seasoning, not the main course. However you try to disguise it, you end up feeding without being nourished.”

Trying Real Ends Courses Pleasure Becoming Limits Fulfillment Emptiness Satisfying Meaningless Disguise Feeding Fleeting Indulgence Extravagance Frivolity Seasoning Main Course

Author:Brandon Mull

“As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.”

Ifs Knows Men Love Life Years Stills Use Age Time Pleasure Know How Limits And Love Embrace Aging Extremes Old Age Sweetest

Author:Seneca the Younger

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