If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
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.
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