Sayfa 592 / 734

Now if they judge this from the act of feeling Pleasure then the

same thing will apply to justice and all the other virtues,[5] in

respect of which clearly it is said that men are more or less of

such and such characters (according to the different virtues),

they are more just or more brave, or one may practise justice and

self-mastery more or less.

If, on the other hand, they judge in respect of the Pleasures

themselves then it may be they miss the true cause, namely that

some are unmixed and others mixed: for just as health being in

itself limited, admits of degrees, why should not Pleasure do so

and yet be limited? in the former case we account for it by the

fact that there is not the same adjustment of parts in all men,

nor one and the same always in the same individual: but health,

though relaxed, remains up to a certain point, and differs in

degrees; and of course the same may be the case with Pleasure.