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Does more pleasure mean more happiness? Or does lived experience say otherwise? Drawing from Aquinas, this episode shows why excess quietly sabotages enjoyment, and how the virtue of temperance doesn’t suppress desire but trains it. From food and drink to deeper human pleasures, reason sets the limits that make enjoyment last. Lose moderation, and pleasure turns on you. Master it, and pleasure finally does what it’s supposed to do.

Notes:

Summa Theologica. Part 2 of 2, Question 141. Article 1. Whether temperance is a virtue?

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