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

Epicurus

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

George Bernard Shaw

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

John Dryden

Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veiled Melancholy has her sovran shrine.

John Keats

The heart can ne'er a transport know That never feels a pain.

George Lyttleton

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

Michel de Montaigne

Marred pleasure's best, shadow makes the sun strong.

Stevie Smith

All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or langour; 'tis like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

Jonathan Swift

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

Voltaire

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