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Or we might say thus, that the Pleasures are choice-worthy but

not as derived from these sources: just as wealth is, but not as

the price of treason; or health, but not on the terms of eating

anything however loathsome.

Or again, may we not say that Pleasures differ in kind? those

derived from honourable objects, for instance are different from

those arising from disgraceful ones; and it is not possible to

experience the Pleasure of the just man without being just, or of

the musical man without being musical; and so on of others.

The distinction commonly drawn between the friend and the

flatterer would seem to show clearly either that Pleasure is not

a good, or that there are different kinds of Pleasure: for the

former is thought to have good as the object of his intercourse,

the latter Pleasure only; and this last is reproached, but the

former men praise as having different objects in his intercourse.