A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
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