Book 7
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To argue (2) (b) that pleasures are bad because some pleasant things are detrimental to health is the same as to argue that health is bad because some healthy things are bad for the pocket. Both pleasant things and healthy things can be bad in a relative sense, but that does not make them really bad; even contemplation may on occasion be injurious to health.
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(1) (d) Neither prudence nor any other quality is hampered by its own pleasure, but only by alien pleasuresi.e., the pleasures arising from the exercise of other qualities.; the pleasures of contemplation and study will enable us to contemplate and study better.
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(1) (e) That there should be no art devoted to the production of any form of pleasure is only natural; an art never produces an activity, but the capacity for an activity. Though in point of fact the arts of perfumery and cookery are generally considered to be arts of pleasure.
