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“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.”

Way Social Pleasure Security Secure Retirement Social Security Deceived

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.”

May Mean Pleasure Circumstances Function Intellect Reactions Secure Welfare Symptoms Modifying

Book:Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

Source: Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

“When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.”

Trying Mind Enough Body Pain Moving Pleasure Focus Comfortable Secure Grasping

Author:Byron Katie

“I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect, and the secure enjoyment of it as the best human provision for bringing all either into the same way of thinking, or into that mutual charity which is the only substitute, I observe with pleasure the view you give of the spirit in which your sect partake of the blessings offered by our Government and laws.”

Source: 1816-1828

“In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay Tribute to ease; and, of its joy secure, The heart luxuriates with indifferent things, Wasting its kindliness on stocks and stones, And on the vacant air.”

Heart Joy Nature Pleasure Pay Air Sweet Stones Safety Mood Secure Ease Indifferent Tribute Vacant Kindliness Pleasure Love

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.”

“Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.”

Pleasure Pay Half Enemy Honor Conscience Secure Tribute Public Enemies

Author:William Congreve

“It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.”

Source: Works: ¬The Rambler