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78. "Despise pleasures: Pleasure (says Horace) bought with pain is noxious" — silliness of this remark exposed. J. F. C.

Sperne voluptates (says Horace): dolem voluptues Despise pleasures: pleasure bought with pain is noxious Silly enough all this: France but, as paper is of a , sounds, when mix with a small admixture of good sense it is is by general consent, received as made to pass for an equivalent for pain , since: [as in the small money of France, brass or copper base metal with a small alloy of silver is received as an equivalent for silver with a small alloy of the base metal. If pleasure is a proper object of contempt, what is it that is the proper object of esteem? pain or apathy? Pleasure bou paid for by pain is a bad bargain: says the philosopher with in his fool's cap scratching his head for jingle: just as if, at a party, a man you know nothing of were to come to you and say, "Sir, you pay too dear for your sugar," not knowing what you pay for your sugar, any more than when you buy it. In the one verse may be seen the ascetic principle and the greatest happiness principle breathed out come one with the same breath. "Despise pleasure" is pure asceticism put pure you may call it whether it is a Frenchman you are speaking to or to an Englishman, pleasure paid for in pain is noxious, has at bottom a spice, of utilitarianism, though made by stale water made up into this maukish draught.

79 — has at bottom a spice of utilitarianism Horace no ascetic. J. F. C.

Not that in his own composition Horace had any thing of asceticism is one of the last sins he will be accused of by any one who has any acquaintance with his works.

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Date_1	1829-06-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	78-80
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	351	Info in main headings field	article
Image	001	Titles
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1828
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