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But they do not all pursue the same pleasure, since the natural state and the best state
neither is nor seems to be the same for them all; yet still they all pursue pleasure.
Indeed it is possible that in reality they do not pursue the pleasure which they think and
would say they do, but all the same pleasure; for nature has implanted in all things
something divine.1 But as the
pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are
capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and so men think these are the only
pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.
1 Cf. 10.2.4.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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