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“No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned over Saul when he sinned, but he was not able to obtain God's mercy, for his grief was not supported by the necessary change of life on the part of the sinner. Hence God put an end to the pointless grief of His servant, saying to him, 'How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?' (I Sam. 16:1).”

Ifs Men Long Ends Able Christian Asks Prayer Sin Pleasure Grief Virtue Seeing Benefits Mercy Israel Servant Life Changing Sinner Orthodox Rejected Mourn Pointless Necessary Change

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.”

Certain Pleasure Grief Tears Satisfaction Cures Weeping

Author:Ovid

“Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him”

Men Years Firsts Doe Age Pleasure Grief Cases Depends Sensations First Love Fourteen

Author:Charles Kingsley

“No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.”

“Life is a mosaic of pleasure and pain - grief is an interval between two moments of joy.”

Two Moments Pain Life Is Joy Pleasure Grief Sadness Intervals Pain And Pleasure Mosaics

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.”

Mind Art Pain Joy Hate Pleasure Grief Balance Fairs Train Bounds Dues Hope Love

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton

“Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.”

Sometimes Would Be Pain Pleasure Grief Share Conversation Silent Satisfaction Sympathy Participation Woe Diminish

Author:William Wycherley

“Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune that may befall him.”

May Self Together Imagination Ability Pleasure Grief Seeing Equal Fortune Ill Envy Exceed Emulation

Book:The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives

Source: The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic: Part I, Human Nature, Part II, De Corpore Politico ; with Three Lives

“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”

“What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.”

Social Pleasure Grief Argument Connections Communicate Favors Observation

Author:Sir Fulke Greville

“Oh youth, youth! You don't worry about anything; you seem to possess all the treasures of the universe--even sorrow gives you pleasure, even grief suits you.... And perhaps the whole secret of your charm lies not in your ability to do everything, but in your ability to think that you will do everything.”

Thinking Giving Whole Seems Lying Universe Ability Pleasure Grief Secret Worry Youth Sorrow Treasure Suits Charm Suits You

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one.”

Men Ideas Moments Pleasure Grief Various Miserable Abstract Happy Man

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Source: VOLTAIRE – Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters (60+ Works in One Volume) - Illustrated: Candide, A Philosophical Dictionary, A Treatise on Toleration, Plato's Dream, The Princess of Babylon, Zadig, The Huron, Socrates, The Sage and the Atheist, Dialogues, Oedipus, Caesar…

“Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can use in other ways. I can create with them in my writing and my life, mix them up with excitement and pleasure. I can name that terrible, numbing paralysis and know it will pass.”

Knows Way Writing I Can Use Names Pleasure Grief Destiny Terrible Despair Familiar Excitement Traits Rulers Almighty Our Destiny Your Destiny Paralysis Numbing

Author:Margo Jefferson

“If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first of all, as to why he created this world. This world which is full of woe and grief, and countless miseries, where not even one person lives in peace....Where is God? What is He doing? Is He getting a diseased pleasure out of it? A Nero! A Genghis Khan! Down with Him!”

Ifs Knows World Firsts Believe Persons Earth Universe Pleasure Grief This World Please Let Me Misery Almighty Woe Diseased Omniscient Nero

Author:Bhagat Singh

“But beneath it all will run that Sicilian understanding that the underside of joy is grief, that the face of sacrifice and suffering is the dark mirror image of pleasure and enjoyment, that every moment of arrival is to be treasured and enjoyed in the full knowledge that it has brought us a moment closer to the moment of departure.”

Moments Running Faces Joy Suffering Understanding Dark Pleasure Grief Sacrifice Mirrors Enjoyed Enjoyment Departure Arrivals Treasured Sicilian Mirror Image

Book:Sicilian Odyssey

Source: Sicilian Odyssey