We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.