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Besides, the life of the good man is not more pleasurable than

any other unless it be granted that his active workings are so

too.

Some enquiry into the bodily Pleasures is also necessary for

those who say that some Pleasures, to be sure, are highly

choice-worthy (the good ones to wit), but not the bodily

Pleasures; that is, those which are the object-matter of the man

utterly destitute of Self-Control.

If so, we ask, why are the contrary Pains bad? they cannot be (on

their assumption) because the contrary of bad is good.