Avert Quote by Plato

Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.

— Jeremy Bentham

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

— Helen Keller

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

— Agnibin Banerjee

Pleasure bought with pain does harm.

— Horace

There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

— Anonymous

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Theres a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.

— 50 Shdes Of Grey

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

— Euripides

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

— John Stuart Mill

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention…

— John Stuart Mill

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

— Edmund Spenser