Of course it does, Darling it says: by abstaining from pleasures we become temperate, and

Of course it does, Darling it says: by abstaining from pleasures we become temperate, and it is when we have become so that we are most able to abstain from them…We must take as a sign of states of character the pleasure or pain that ensues on acts; for the man who abstains from bodily pleasures and delights in this very fact is temperate, while the man who is annoyed at it is self-indulgent…the sense with which self-indulgence is connected is the most widely shared of the senses; and self-indulgence would seem to be justly a matter of reproach, because it attaches to us not as men but as animals. To delight in such things, then, and to love them above all others, is brutish. For even of the pleasures of touch the most liberal have been eliminated, e.g. those produced in the gymnasium by rubbing and by the consequent heat; for the contact characteristic of the self-indulgent man does not affect the whole body but only certain parts.  Aristotle: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/nicomachaen.html -- source link

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