In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammeled and when nothing prevents us from doing what we like best.
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of the pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammeled and when nothing prevents us from doing what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided.
Indignation and dislike are directed at men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of the pleasure of the moment, blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish.
Foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish.
To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or with one who avoids a pain that produces no such consequences?
Laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure?
Man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences:
Equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness same duty.
Business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated annoyances accepted.
Holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure.
Duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our to do what we like best.
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