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4 +1 | The more effort you put into acquiring something, the more you love it |
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4 | no joy without pain |
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3 | Honor lies in honest toil... |
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St Basil the Great, Proemium to Commentary on Isaiah |
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The more effort you put into acquiring something, the more you love it Explanation: See my comments in the discussion box. This may be a made-up quote, but either way its translation is pretty straightforward. |
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no joy without pain Explanation: The effort to create/get something is the precondition for joy. Joy results from the fulfillment of an effort. |
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Honor lies in honest toil... Explanation: This might work at a pinch, it sounds old-fashioned enough anyway. Found nothing by Aristotle though. Reference: http://https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/grover_cleveland |
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Reference: St Basil the Great, Proemium to Commentary on Isaiah Reference information: I found it in Latin (how is a longish story I won't bore you with): "Deinde quo maiori labore res partae sunt, eo magis amantur" lit. "Therefore by so much greater labour things are acquired ['given birth to'], by that much more are they loved" It's quoted in a sermon by Felipe Díez Lusitano, a Franciscan preacher from Salamanca. I found it in an edition of his sermons entitled Summa praedicantium ex omnibus locis (Venice, 1591), p. 550a https://books.google.es/books?id=4Tfkk-mi_awC&pg=RA1-PA550&l... It's near the end of a paragraph which starts by referring to "B. Basilius in prooemio in Isaiam". I suspected this might mean that our aphorism comes from Basil, and so it turns out to be. By great good fortune there's an English translation of St Basil's commentary on Isaiah online. In this passage Díez refers to, Basil is defending and explaining the obscurity of scripture: "He also purposely designed lack of clarity in Scripture for the benefit of the mind, waking up its activity. Designed in the first place, so that being engrossed in these pursuits it might be drawn aside from less commendable ones; next, because things acquired with effort are somehow much more valued and those that come over a long period remain more steadfast." https://s3.amazonaws.com/academia.edu.documents/40256869/St_... (p. 7) I don't know whether you'll be able to open this pdf. I downloaded it from here: https://www.academia.edu/2949471/St._Basil_the_Great_Comment... But I can't remember whether you have to be registered. Basil could be quoting Aristotle here, though it doesn't say so. The attribution to Aristotle could simply be because this sentence was anthologised, the attribution was lost, and someone decided later that it was probably Aristotle, in the same sort of way stray quotations get falsely attributed to people like Oscar Wilde and Churchill. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 days (2018-06-03 21:05:52 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I'm so glad! Best wishes. |
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