Character Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

— Ayn Rand

To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?... Why is it immoral for…

— John Galt

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Marcus Aurelius

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

— Bertrand Russell

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.

— John Gay

In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I believe that man was created to enjoy himself, indeed, that he can claim it as his legitimate right. In fact, as long as…

— Kafu Nagai

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness.

— Michel de Montaigne

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Morality turns on whether the pleasure precedes or follows the pain

— Samuel Butler