Care-of-the-soul Quote by Epictetus

“PHILOSOPHY IS THE RESULT OF PAIN”

— M.Lakshmi Durga

“There is no pleasure like the absence of pain – immediately after pain.”

— Isaac Asimov

“Without pain, we fail to find the true pleasure of being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

“Whose pain will go away? He who does the ‘operation’ of material [physical] pleasures; his pain will go away!”

— Dada Bhagwan

“The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.”

— Mia P

Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Only after experiencing pain can we enjoy pleasure and derive happiness from it.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Pleasure was a powerful tool. More powerful than pain, if you had the patience for it. Even the women who feared him usually returned,…

— Kit Rocha

“They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too…

— Bronnie Ware

“This lively health, when entirely free from all mixture of pain, of itself gives an inward pleasure, independent of all external objects of delight;…

— Thomas More

“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”

— Marquis de Sade