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Now in all such cases that is held to be which impresses the good

man with the notion of being such and such; and if this is a

second maxim (as it is usually held to be), and Virtue, that is,

the Good man, in that he is such, is the measure of everything,

then those must be real Pleasures which gave him the impression

of being so and those things pleasant in which he takes Pleasure.

Nor is it at all astonishing that what are to him unpleasant

should give another person the impression of being pleasant, for

men are liable to many corruptions and marrings; and the things

in question are not pleasant really, only to these particular

persons, and to them only as being thus disposed.