Synonyms for pleasures
plea·sures

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1. List of paraphrases for "pleasures":

   joys, delights, fun

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1. Abraham Lincoln:

   With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

2. James Henry Leigh Hunt:

   It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

3. Jane Austen:

   One half of the world can not understand the pleasures of the other.

4. Plato:

   The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

5. Thomas Fuller:

   I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.