Connections Quote by Livy

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

— Livy

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

— Pierre Charron

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

— Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily.

— Epicurus

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

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

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

— Alexander Smith

Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

— Anonymous

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

— Ian K. Smith

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.

— Germaine Greer

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton