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

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

Michel de Montaigne
Communication, Delight, Pleasure

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

Michel de Montaigne
Doctors, Pleasure
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.77, Stanford University Press

Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne
Pain, Emotion, Pleasure

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

Michel de Montaigne
World, Opinion, Pleasure
"Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

Michel de Montaigne
Pleasure, Embrace

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

Michel de Montaigne
Painful, Pleasure, Bottom
Michel de Montaigne (1701). “An Abstract of the most Curious and Excellent Thoughts in Seigneur de Montaigne's Essays ... Done into English from the French original.Jpp. 227”, p.189

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.

Michel de Montaigne
Pain, Pleasure, Avoided
Michel de Montaigne, James Hain Friswell (1866). “Essays by Montaigne. [A selection.] Edited, compared, revised, and annotated by the Author of “The Gentle Life” [J. H. Friswell].”, p.318

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

Michel de Montaigne
Cat, Hands, Pleasure
"The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy".

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

Michel de Montaigne
Communication, Pleasure, Without Communication
Michel De Montaigne, James B Atkinson, David Sices (2012). “Selected Essays: With La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

Books are a languid pleasure.

Michel de Montaigne
Book, Pleasure

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