After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.
Danish proverb.
“Bad is never good until worse happens.”
“Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.”
“A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.”
“If envy were a fever all the world would be ill.”
“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
“These examples suggest what one needs to learn to control attention. In principle any skill or discipline one can master on ones own will serve: meditation and prayer if one is so inclined; exercis...”
“The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.”
“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”
“The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23”
“Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young wom...”
