Synonyms for delights
de·lights

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1. List of paraphrases for "delights":

   pleasures, delight, buddha

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1. Firmianus Lactantius:

   Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

2. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

   Arms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood.

3. Henry Miller:

   What we all hope in reaching for a book, is to meet a man of our own heart, to experience tragedies and delights which we ourselves lack the courage to invite, to dream dreams which will render life more hallucinating, perhaps also to discover a philosophy of life which will make us more adequate in meeting the trials and ordeals which beset us. To merely add to our store of knowledge or improve our culture, whatever that may mean, seems worthless to me.

4. Bhartrihari:

   The son who delights his father by his good actions; the wife who seeks only her husband?s good; the friend who is the same in prosperity and adversity?these three things are the reward of virtue.

5. François Fénelon:

   All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.