If there is one thing worse than ..., The Mechanics of Virtue, aphorism 328

328

If there is one thing worse than being accused of indulging in a harmless pleasure, it is being accused unjustly – one solution being to take the injustice out of the equation through one's prompt indulgence, decreasing the affliction by two-thirds: One no longer (1) resists the pleasure (2) nor suffers from an awareness of the injustice; (3) only an accusation of harmless indulgence remains.

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