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Full Idea
Life is not worth living for pleasures whose enjoyment entirely depends on previous sensation of pain, like almost all physical pleasures.
Gist of Idea
Most pleasure is release from pain, and is therefore not worthwhile
Source
Plato (Phaedrus [c.366 BCE], 258e)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII', ed/tr. Hamilton,Walter [Penguin 1973], p.69
A Reaction
Eating exotic food which is hard to obtain? (Pay someone to obtain it). Rock climbing. Training for sport.