A Quote by David Hume

Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.

David Hume

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David Hume
Scottish - Philosopher
May 7, 1711 - August 25, 1776

I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

Plato

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

Philip James Bailey

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

Epicurus

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

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.

Horace Mann

love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky

e. e. cummings

Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

Plato

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

W. Somerset Maugham

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

John Dryden

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm not a great pothead or anything like that... but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol.

Johnny Depp

The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

Katharine Whitehorn

You look at the savings health insurance, there's so many great ways you can do that. You'll get great plans at much less money, at much less money. I mean, these people are being just killed. And you know the 25% was put out by Washington 'cause the real number could be three times that amount. I mean, it's catastrophic what's going on.