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Full Idea
Pleasure is not the good, because there are disgraceful pleasures, and nothing disgraceful is good.
Gist of Idea
Pleasure is not the good, because there are disgraceful pleasures
Source
report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.Ze.60
Book Ref
Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.297
A Reaction
I certainly approve of the idea that not all pleasure is intrinsically good. Indeed, I think good has probably got nothing to do with pleasure. 'Disgraceful' is hardly objective though.