Enjoy Quote by Thomas Carlyle

No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

— Epicurus

No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

— Martin Van Buren

A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil.

— Baruch Spinoza

“You think pleasure is only of the senses; the wretched slaves who manufactured your morality despised a satisfaction which they had small means of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source…

— Benjamin Franklin

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

— Plato

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

— Lee Strobel

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

— Alexander Pope

As to the lawful pleasures of the mind, the heart, or the senses, indulge in them with gratitude and moderation, drawing up sometimes in…

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

— Samuel Johnson

The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment.

— John Gay