Plea Quotes

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.