Pleasure and pain

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For all the happiness Mankind can gain
Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

John Dryden

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Topic

Happiness Pleasure and pain Pleasure Pain

Speaker

Cortez

Author

John Dryden

Source

The Indian Emperor

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Language

English

Time

1665 1660s 17th century

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Original Citation

Dryden, John. The Indian Emperor. King's Company, 1665, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Dryden, John. "The Indian Emperor." The Works of John Dryden. Vol. 9. University of California Press, 1967, act 4, sc. 1.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

Jeremy Bentham

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

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Topic

Pleasure and pain

Author

Jeremy Bentham

Source

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1789 1780s 18th century

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Original Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. London: T. Payne, 1789, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Dover Publications, 2007, ch. 1.