Certain Quote by Livy

Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.

— Livy

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.

— Pierre Charron

The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity…

— Blaise Pascal

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

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

— Germaine Greer

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same…

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.”

— Clive Barker

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

There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of…

— Laurence Sterne

Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.

— Marc Gafni

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

— Epicurus

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

— Oscar Wilde