387 | A small pure pleasure is much finer than a large one contaminated with pain [Plato] |
2157 | Nice smells are intensive, have no preceding pain, and no bad after-effect [Plato] |
5230 | There are pleasures of the soul (e.g. civic honour, and learning) and of the body [Aristotle] |
383 | God feels one simple pleasure forever [Aristotle] |
5270 | Intellectual pleasures are superior to sensuous ones [Aristotle] |
3557 | The end for Epicurus is static pleasure [Epicurus, by Annas] |
1839 | Pains of the soul are worse than pains of the body, because it feels the past and future [Epicurus, by Diog. Laertius] |
1842 | Pleasures only differ in their duration and the part of the body affected [Epicurus] |
505 | Good and true are the same for everyone, but pleasures differ [Democritus (attr)] |
521 | We should only choose pleasures which are concerned with the beautiful [Democritus (attr)] |
1838 | Cyrenaic pleasure is a motion, but Epicurean pleasure is a condition [Diog. Laertius] |
5271 | Prejudice apart, push-pin has equal value with music and poetry [Bentham] |
5934 | Of Bentham's 'dimensions' of pleasure, only intensity and duration matter [Ross on Bentham] |
8096 | He gives his body up to pleasure, but not his soul [Joubert] |
9196 | The pleasure of existing is the only genuine pleasure [Hadot] |
7498 | Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault] |