Amin Maalouf Quotes

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

When there is pleasure, there is often abandon, and mistakes are made.

I mean, most fun things are bad for you in one way or another.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.