I ate no pleasant food, neither came meat nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
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Aquinas Study Bible
AD 2017
Daniel abstained from pleasures, not through any horror of pleasure as though it were evil in itself, but for some praiseworthy end, in order, namely, to adapt himself to the heights of contemplation by abstaining from pleasures of the body. So the text goes on to tell of the revelation that he received immediately afterwards. (St. Thomas Aquinas)
