flute-playing more than the activity in hand; so the pleasure
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argument. This happens, similarly, in all other cases, when one is
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theatre www sexoholik pl the people who eat sweets do so most when the actors are poor.
Now since activities are made precise and more enduring and better
by their proper pleasure, and injured
by alien pleasures, evidently
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much what proper pains do, since activities are destroyed by their
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its proper pleasures and
pains, i.e. from those that supervene on www sexoholik pl it
in virtue of its own nature. And alien pleasures have been stated to
do much the same as pain; they destroy the activity, only not to the
same degree.
Now since activities differ in respect of goodness and badness,
and some are worthy to be chosen, others to be avoided, and others
neutral, so, too, are the pleasures; for to each activity there is a
proper pleasure. The pleasure proper to a www sexoholik pl worthy activity is good
and that proper to an unworthy activity bad; just as the appetites for
noble objects are laudable, those for base objects culpable. But the
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desires; for the latter are separated www sexoholik pl both in time and in nature,
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are different, then, so are the corresponding pleasures. Now sight
is superior to touch in purity, and hearing and smell to taste; the
pleasures, therefore, are similarly superior, and those of thought
superior to these, and within each of the two