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Balancing Pleasure and Duty

Men who are blinded by pleasure and cannot foresee future pain deserve blame, as do those who fail in their duty due to weakness of will. While in free time every pleasure should be welcomed and pain avoided, circumstances sometimes demand that pleasures be repudiated or annoyances accepted, as duty and obligations require. The wise man accepts these demands.

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Balancing Pleasure and Duty

Men who are blinded by pleasure and cannot foresee future pain deserve blame, as do those who fail in their duty due to weakness of will. While in free time every pleasure should be welcomed and pain avoided, circumstances sometimes demand that pleasures be repudiated or annoyances accepted, as duty and obligations require. The wise man accepts these demands.

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he other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so

beguiled and demoralized by the charms of 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 untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best,
every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain
circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it
will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted.
The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to

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