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Therefore our recollections are pleasant, not only
when they recall things which when present were agreeable, but also some things
which were not, if their consequence subsequently proves honorable or good;
whence the saying: “
Truly it is pleasant to remember toil after one has escaped it,1
” and, “
When a man has suffered much and accomplished much, he afterwards
takes pleasure even in his sorrows when he recalls them.2
”
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Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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