Every action has its pleasures and its price.
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Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.
Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye. No great achievement is possible without persistent work, so absorbing and so difficult that little energy is left over for the more strenuous kinds of amusement.
achievement / amusement / pleasures / quiet / work
The positive sum of pleasures in a modern man’s life is undoubtedly greater than was to be found in more primitive communities, but the consciousness of what might be has increased even more.
consciousness / Life / modern / pleasures / primitive