Many are of opinion, that pain arises necessarily from the removal of some pleasure; as they think pleasure does from the ceasing or diminution of some pain.
 Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). copy citation

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Author Edmund Burke
Source A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Topic pain pleasure
Date 1757
Language English
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