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Next, as to the argument that there are bad Pleasures because

some things which are pleasant are also hurtful to health, it is

the same as saying that some healthful things are bad for

"business." In this sense, of course, both may be said to be bad,

but then this does not make them out to be bad simpliciter: the

exercise of the pure Intellect sometimes hurts a man's health:

but what hinders Practical Wisdom or any state whatever is, not

the Pleasure peculiar to, but some Pleasure foreign to it: the

Pleasures arising from the exercise of the pure Intellect or from

learning only promote each.

Next. "No Pleasure is the work of any Art." What else would you

expect? No active working is the work of any Art, only the

faculty of so working. Still the perfumer's Art or the cook's are

thought to belong to Pleasure.

Next. "The man of Perfected Self-Mastery avoids Pleasures." "The

man of Practical Wisdom aims at escaping Pain rather than at

attaining Pleasure."