And Pindar, giving advice to Hiero the tyrant of Syracuse, says—
Never obscure fair pleasure in your life;
A life of pleasure is the best for man.
And Homer, too, speaks of pleasure and indulgence in the following terms—
How sweet the products of a peaceful reign,—
The heaven-taught poet and enchanting strain,
The well-fill'd palace, the perpetual feast,
A loud rejoicing, and a people blest!
How goodly seems it ever to employ
Man's social days in union and in joy;