Aristotle Quotes About Pain And Pleasure

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

  Aristotle

  Wise, Pain, Philosophical

• In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain

  Aristotle

  Pain, Pleasure, Rudders

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Nicomachean Ethics”, p.198, Aeterna Press

• Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Perception, Desire

• We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Opposites, Quality

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

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