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  • a person is quite alone -- no child, no brother; and yet there is no end to his efforts, his eyes can never have their fill of riches. For whom, then, do I work so hard and grudge myself pleasure? This too is futile, a sorry business. (Ecclesiastes 4, 8)

  • And therefore I praise joy, since human happiness lies only in eating and drinking and in taking pleasure; this comes from what someone achieves during the days of life that God gives under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 8, 15)

  • The sayings of a sage give pleasure, what a fool says procures his own ruin: (Ecclesiastes 10, 12)

  • Remember your Creator while you are still young, before the bad days come, before the years come which, you will say, give you no pleasure; (Ecclesiastes 12, 1)

  • For God did not make Death, he takes no pleasure in destroying the living. (Wisdom of Solomon 1, 13)

  • where, for ten months, in blood I acquired substance -- the result of virile seed and pleasure, sleep's companion. (Wisdom of Solomon 7, 2)

  • 'When I go home I shall take my ease with her, for nothing is bitter in her company, when life is shared with her there is no pain, nothing but pleasure and joy.' (Wisdom of Solomon 8, 16)

  • Do not desert an old friend; the new one will not be his match. New friend, new wine; when it grows old, you drink it with pleasure. (Ecclesiasticus 9, 10)

  • Do not take pleasure in what pleases the godless; remember they will not go unpunished here below. (Ecclesiasticus 9, 12)

  • Do not long for a brood of worthless children, and do not take pleasure in godless sons. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 1)

  • However many you have, take no pleasure in them, unless the fear of the Lord lives among them. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 2)

  • Taking pleasure in evil earns condemnation; (Ecclesiasticus 19, 5)


“A prática das bem-aventuranças não requer atos de heroísmo, mas a aceitação simples e humilde das várias provações pelas quais a pessoa passa.” São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina