Home » Quote » Miyamoto Musashi » „Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.“ „Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.“ — Miyamoto Musashi Tags:Pleasure Related quotes „All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.“ — Fernando Pessoa „If the entire soul, then, follows without rebellion the part which loves wisdom, the result is that in general each part can carry out its own function—can be just, in other words—and in particular each is able to enjoy pleasures which are its own, the best, and, as far as possible, the truest. … When one of the other parts takes control, there are two results: it fails to discover its own proper pleasure, and it compels the other parts to pursue a pleasure which is not their own, and not true.“ — Socrates „The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.“ — Marcus Aurelius „Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.“ — Jane Austen