“Variety is the soul of pleasure.”
“Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.”
“The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness.”
“Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.”
“Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and... absolutely nothing else. And through the development of this capacity, man may yet come to find pleasure in the spilling of blood.”
“Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in which the soul has no part.”