Bears Quote by Laurence Sterne

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

— Edward Young

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

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Would you agree," he said, "that man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?" "Only if the pleasure produced is equivalent…

— Susan Hubbard

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

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— John Dryden

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“What a strange thing that which men call pleasure seems to be, and how astonishing the relation it has with what is thought to…

— Plato

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

— Samuel Johnson

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pain is short, and joy is eternal.

— Friedrich Schiller