Genüsse / Pleasures Gibt / Gives Kante / Edge Schärfe / Sharpness Schmerzen / Pains Tis Unsere / Our Verstand / Mind
Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
I adore gelato; it's a pleasure I shared for years with my friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
