“It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.” WorldWayHardPleasureThis WorldTerribleConsequenceEndurePainfulRingsAttractivePleasantSensationsContemplatingWormsScratchesItching Author:Ramakrishna
“What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractive. [Lat., Quod licet est ingratum quod non licet acrius urit.]” PleasureAttractiveUndesirableUnlawful Author:Ovid
“Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.” PerfectPleasureMoralMaterialsSourceTastePerfectionAttractivePurityFacultyReceivingOar Author:John Ruskin
“In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.” MenHumansPleasureEventsHuman NatureDiversitySpeciesPainfulDelightAttractivePleasantAnnoyingDisgustingHuman SpeciesGreat Diversity Book:The Nicomachean ethics Source: The Nicomachean ethics