Ethics Quote by Susan Hubbard

“Pleasure was a powerful tool. More powerful than pain, if you had the patience for it. Even the women who feared him usually returned,…

— Kit Rocha

“A man's greatest pleasure is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them that which they possessed, to see…

— Ghengis Khan

“Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another.”

— Marcel Proust

“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”

— Marquis de Sade

“There can be as much joy of giving pleasure as to receive it.”

— Anonymous

“Without pain, we fail to find the true pleasure of being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Who am I to deny my Master pleasure, simply because it is not at the hands of myself? He is free to do as…

— Astrid Knowles

“The only pleasing thing in life is pain. Pain creates pleasure, but not in the literal way.”

— Mia P

“Pleasure and pain are merely states of mind, rather than situations. Every situation is neutral.”

— Daniel Levin

“Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“...Father made a fetish out of performing tasks the correct way. There was an efficiency and economy of his motions that I always found…

— Pat Conroy

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his…

— Jean de la Bruyere