By Aristotle
God sent you into my life to show me there is love in this world, to bring me all pleasure…You are a gift for me from heaven. Love you and Good Morning!
Pleasure and pain come from your own past actions.
Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in other companies.
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don’t believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
Health consists with temperance alone.
I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play…but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.
I can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I’ve relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.
I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.
Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
