For he was not contented with barely saying this, but he has explained what he meant: he says that taste, and embraces, and sports, and music, and those forms which affect the eyes with pleasure, are the chief good.

Have I invented this?
have I misrepresented him?
I should be glad to be confuted; for what am I endeavoring at but to clear up truth in every question?
Well, but the same man says that pleasure is at its height where pain ceases, and that to be free from all pain is the very greatest pleasure.

Here are three very great mistakes in a very few words.

One is, that he contradicts himself; for, but just now, he could not imagine anything good unless the senses were in a manner tickled with some pleasure; but now he says that to be free from pain is the highest pleasure.

Can any one contradict himself more?
The next mistake is, that where there is naturally a threefold division--the first, to be pleased; next, to be in pain; the last, to be affected neither by pleasure nor pain--he imagines the first and the last to be the same, and makes no difference between pleasure and a cessation of pain.