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How is it then that no one can feel pleasure continuously? Perhaps it is due to fatigue,
since no human faculty is capable of uninterrupted activity, and therefore pleasure also
is not continuous, because it accompanies the activity of the faculties. It is for the
same reason that some things please us when new, but cease to give so much pleasure later;
this is because at first the mind is stimulated, and acts vigorously in regard to the
object, as in the case of sight when we look at something intently; but afterwards the
activity is less vigorous and our attention relaxes, and consequently the pleasure also
fades.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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