Quote by Samuel Johnson

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

Summary

This quote suggests that the experience of pleasure is often accompanied by pain in some form or another. It poses a rhetorical question, challenging the idea that people would continue to seek out pleasure if they were not eventually met with its counterpart. By acknowledging the existence of pain, the quote highlights the contrast between pleasure and the challenges that often follow, likely serving as a reminder of the inevitable duality in life, and the notion that we appreciate and cherish pleasurable experiences precisely because of their contrast to painful ones.

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By Samuel Johnson

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