Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

T.C. Boyle
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When John Locke wrote in 1689 that, “Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain,” he was expressing the idea that there are no completely painless pleasures. He was also suggesting that people should not seek pleasure when pain could be avoided.

Source: A Friend Of The Earth

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