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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Gregory of Neocaesarea
Judging, therefore, that it stood thus with this matter, I decided to turn to another mariner of life, and to give myself to pleasure, and to take experience of various delights. And now I learned that all such things are vain; and I put a check on laughter, when it ran on carelessly; and restrained pleasure, according to the rule of moderation, and was bitterly angry against it. …
Western Saints
Jerome
"I said to myself: Come, I will experiment with joy and enjoy pleasure. That, too, turned out to be futile." After I detected that pain and labour were in the essence of wisdom and the accumulation of knowledge, and nothing else except vain and endless struggle, I felt joyful that I would overflow with excess, accrue riches, amass great wealth, and take temporary pleasures before I die. But even in this I saw my vanity, for past pleasures do not help the present, and do not fill up what is empty. …
Bonaventure
"I said in my heart" etc. Here the third point is touched upon, namely the turning to pleasure on account of the weariness of contemplation. For since in contemplating there was labor and affliction, he therefore thought to abandon this and turn himself to delights, in which there is pleasure. On account of which he says: "I said in my heart," that is, I came to this consideration on account of the spiritual affliction in contemplating. …
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