“Pleasure can only be experienced after going through pain and vice versa.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

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Congolese author 1996

James W. Prescott (1930) American psychologist

"Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence" (1975)
Context: Laboratory experiments show that... When the brain's pleasure circuits are 'on,' the violence circuits are 'off,' and vice versa.

“If you can go through life without ever experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet. And if you've gone through pain and think you know exactly why, you haven't examined all the options.”

Neil Simon (1927–2018) playwright, writer, academic

The Play Goes On (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999) p. 260

“Too fucking busy, and vice versa.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Response to an editor pressuring her for overdue work, as quoted in The Unimportance of Being Oscar (1968) by Oscar Levant, p. 89

“Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.”

Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach

“All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 265
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Todo o prazer é um vício, porque buscar o prazer é o que todos fazem na vida, e o único vício negro é fazer o que toda a gente faz.