Certain Quote by Epicurus

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

— Ken Wilber

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

— Plato

In this world, all pleasures are sources of pain.

— Radhanath Swami

The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so.…

— Aristotle

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

— Marcus Aurelius

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

— Epictetus

“How would you judge the lawfulness or unlawfulness of "pleasure?" Use this rule: Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures…

— Susanna Wesley

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

— John Lubbock

Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

— C. S. Lewis

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

— Aristotle

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

— Jeremy Bentham

“Pleasure always means not to think about anything, to forget suffering even where it is shown. Basically it is helplessness. It is flight; not,…

— Theodor Adorno