PoemBut pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed, Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white - then melts for ever.Robert BurnsTam o' Shanter · 1791★ 5.2
Play · Drama (play)For all the happiness Mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.John Dryden1665★ 3.6
Historical literaturePleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.EpicurusDiogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240★ 2.2