It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.