Pleasures are mental and bodily.

With the mental, as love of learning or of honour, temperance is not concerned.

Nor with the bodily pleasures of muscular exercise, of hearing and of smell, but only with the animal pleasures of touch and taste: in fact, sensuality resides in touch; the pleasure of eating being a mode of contact (X.).
In the desires natural and common to men, as eating and the nuptial couch, men are given to err, and error is usually on the side of excess.

But it is in the case of special tastes or preferences, that people are most frequently intemperate.

Temperance does not apply to enduring pains, except those of abstinence from pleasures.