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1. Every Pleasure is a sensible process towards a complete state;

but no such process is akin to the end to be attained: e.g. no

process of building to the completed house.

2. The man of Perfected Self-Mastery avoids Pleasures.

3. The man of Practical Wisdom aims at avoiding Pain, not at

attaining Pleasure.

4. Pleasures are an impediment to thought, and the more so the

more keenly they are felt. An obvious instance will readily

occur.

5. Pleasure cannot be referred to any Art: and yet every good is

the result of some Art.

6. Children and brutes pursue Pleasures.

In support of the second (that not all Pleasures are good), That

there are some base and matter of reproach, and some even

hurtful: because some things that are pleasant produce disease.

In support of the third (that Pleasure is not the Chief Good),

That it is not an End but a process towards creating an End.

This is, I think, a fair account of current views on the matter.