“To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.”
“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”
“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. ”
“The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.”
“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.”
“Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.”