“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”
“The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.”
“when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, ofhell.”
“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”
“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”