Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
