Convinced Quote by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

— Edward Young

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

— Anonymous

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

There is a particular kind of pain which gives us pleasure.

— Agnibin Banerjee

“To seek pleasure, to avoid pain, is the general line of action (some would say law) of the organic world. Without this quest of…

— Peter Kropotkin

A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

— Cyrus the Great

“Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why…

— Viktor E. Frankl

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

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

— Mardy Grothe

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than…

— Elie Wiesel

The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be…

— John Berger

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

— Neil Young