If both Pleasure and Pain were bad both would have been objebsp;of avoidanbsp;or if her then her would have been, at all events they must have fared alike:but now men do plainly avoid the one as bad and choo the other as good, and so there is a plete opposition.
III Nor again is Pleasure therefore excluded from being good bebsp;it does not belong to the class of qualities: the absp;of virtue are not qualities, her is Happiness Well then, we said that it is not a State merely; becau, if it were, it might belong to one who slept all his life through and merely vegetated, or to one who fell into very great calamities: and so, if the possibilities displea us and we would rather put it into the rank of some kind of W (as was also said before), and Ws are of different kinds (some being necessary and choiceworthy with a view to other things, while others are so in themlves), it is plain we must rank Happiness among tho choiceworthy for their own sakes and not among tho whibsp;are so with a view to something further:bebsp;Happiness has no labsp;of anything but is lf-suffit.
By choiceworthy in themlves are meant tho from whibsp;nothing is sought beyond the absp;of W: and of this kind are thought to be the as acc to Virtue, bebsp;doing what is noble and excellent is one of tho things whibsp;are choiceworthy for their own sake alone.
And again, subsp;amuments as are pleasant; bebsp;people do not choo them with any further purpo: in fabsp;they receive more harm than profit from them, ing their persons and their property.
Still the on run of tho who are judged happy take refuge in subsp;pastimes, whibsp;is the reason why they who have varied talent in subsp;are highly esteemed among despots; bebsp;they make themlves pleasant in tho things whibsp;the aim at, and the accly want such men.
Now the things are thought to be appurtenanbsp;of Happiness bebsp;men in power spend their leisure herein: yet, it may be, we ot argue from the example of subsp;men: bebsp;there is her Virtue nor Intellebsp;necessarily involved in having power, and yet the are the only sourbsp;of good Ws: nor does it follow that bebsp;the men, never having tasted pure and generous Pleasure, take refuge in bodily ones, we are therefore to believe them to be more choiceworthy:for children too believe that tho things are most excellent whibsp;are precious in their eyes.