因此,乐趣和避免痛苦是立法者所考虑的目标。
Pleasures, then, and the avoidance of pains, are the ends that the legislator has in view.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
I don't want to be as good as I was, I want to be better than I was.
I'm really excited about the future. I think the best is yet to come.