A Quote by Amin Maalouf

All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price. — © Amin Maalouf
All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.
Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.
To win you must pay the price. If you haven't won you haven't paid the price.
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
[T]he price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
My dad used to tell me, 'Check the price, son.' Check the price, kids, check the price because there is a price to be paid for whatever you do in life, whether it is good or it is bad. Before you do something, ask yourself is it worth the price you have to pay?
We honor the old prophets, we honor the Tozers and Spurgeons but we don’t want to pay the price they paid, and they paid the price by being men who walked alone who lived with God and who loved His word.
Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.
We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom.
The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.
The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price.
There is an interesting point about the price of success: It must always be paid in full-and in advance. Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price.
Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.
The fact that the price must be paid is proof it is worth paying.
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. C. S. LEWIS, Out of the Silent Planet True pleasures are paid for in advance; false pleasures afterwards, with heavy and compound interest.
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