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Contentment (n.) is already pleasure: a hand that wants nothing does not want pleasure, because to be without pain is to be in a state of pleasure.
Courage (n.) is praised not on its own account but because it begets pleasure, as cowardice is blamed because it begets pain.
Death (n.) is nothing to the strong spirit, for the dead are only as they were before they were born.
Debate (n.) is impossible without criticizing, but equally impossible to conduct properly with ill-temper or obstinacy.
Desire (n.) is incapable of satisfaction; desires ruin not individuals only but whole families, and often shake the very foundations of the state.
Desire (n.) quarrels and falls out with itself even when prisoned within the heart, and so embitters the whole of life.
Honour (n.) and esteem are the strongest guarantees of security in life.
Ignorance (n.) of good and evil is the great disturbing factor in man's life, robbing us of our greatest pleasures and tormenting us with the cruellest pain of mind.
Indecision (n.) is the same as shrinking from toil and pain.
Pain (n.) is never loved or pursued because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure some great pleasure.
Pain (n.) lies at the back of every fear and every sorrow; nothing else is of its own nature capable of causing either anxiety or distress.
Pleasure (n.) is never rejected because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue it rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.
Pleasure (n.) at its greatest is not a tickle of the senses but the complete removal of pain.