He turned around to his companions. "What is the greatest wonder, in all this wonderful scene?" he demanded. "Acquaint us," said Maskull. "All that you see is born from pleasure, and moves on, from pleasure to pleasure. Nowhere is right to be found. It is Shaping's world."
"There is another wonder," said Tydomin, and she pointed her finger toward the sky overhead. A small cloud, so low down that it was perhaps not more than five hundred feet above them, was sailing along in front of the dark wall of cliff. It was in the exact shape of an open human hand, with downward-pointing fingers.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
And you would admit that to drink, when you are thirsty, is pleasant? And in the sentence which you have just uttered, the word "thirsty" implies pain? And the word "drinking" is expressive of pleasure, and of the satisfaction of the want? There is pleasure in drinking? Certainly. When you are thirsty? And in pain? Do you see the inference:-that pleasure and pain are simultaneous, when you say that being thirsty, you drink?英文原著 · 《Gorgias》
DEAR BOY: Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon: they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage. Do not think that I mean to snarl at pleasure, like a Stoic, or to preach against it, like a parson; no, I mean to point it out, and recommend it to you, like an Epicurean: I wish you a great deal; and my only view is to hinder you from mistaking it.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1746-47》
Nor do I call pleasures idleness, or time lost, provided they are the pleasures of a rational being; on the contrary, a certain portion of your time, employed in those pleasures, is very usefully employed. Such are public spectacles, assemblies of good company, cheerful suppers, and even balls; but then, these require attention, or else your time is quite lost.英文原著 · 《Letters to His Son, 1746-47》
Thus worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in our daily creative skill.英文原著 · 《Signs of Change》
"The pleasure I had in anticipation of this ball! The bird has flown, I know not where or how. I have no pleasure here at all!" exclaimed she, petulantly, although she knew the ball had been really got up mainly for her own pleasure.英文原著 · 《The Golden Dog》