Being real Quote by Aristotle

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

— John Dryden

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

— Epicurus

Pleasure can be used to enslave a people just as effectively as pain.

— Marianne Williamson

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

— Jeremy Bentham

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you…

— Anonymous

Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on…

— Anonymous

For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is…

— Honore de Balzac

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.

— Ken Wilber

Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain?

— Angelina Jolie

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

— Plato

If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts…

— Radhanath Swami

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

— Tony Robbins