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Well then, as Workings differ from one another in goodness and

badness, some being fit objects of choice, others of avoidance,

and others in their nature indifferent, Pleasures are similarly

related; since its own proper Pleasure attends or each Working:

of course that proper to a good Working is good, that proper to a

bad, bad: for even the desires for what is noble are

praiseworthy, and for what is base blameworthy.

Furthermore, the Pleasures attendant on Workings are more closely

connected with them even than the desires after them: for these

last are separate both in time and nature, but the former are

close to the Workings, and so indivisible from them as to raise a

question whether the Working and the Pleasure are identical; but

Pleasure does not seem to be an Intellectual Operation nor a

Faculty of Perception, because that is absurd; but yet it gives

some the impression of being the same from not being separated

from these.